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, when new disclosure rules took effect. We find that bond prices rise, equity prices fall, and the volatility of both …
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We analyze trading opportunities that arise from differences between the bond and the CDS market. By simultaneously … entering a position in a CDS contract and the underlying bond, traders can build a default-risk free position that allows them … to repeatedly earn the difference between the bond asset swap spread and the CDS, known as the basis. We show that the …
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The paper proposes a novel direction to rationalize and quantify investors' flipping behavior and its effect on underpricing in IPOs through the use of a structural approach mode. The outcome is a proxy value that replicates investors' flipping behavior. When tested empirically, the model...
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We analyze how informed investors trade in the options market ahead of corporate news when they receive private, but noisy, information about the timing and impact of these announcements on stock prices. We propose a framework that ranks options trading strategies (option type, maturity, and...
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Hard-to-value stocks provide opportunities for managers to exploit their informational advantage through trading on …, coinciding with a general decline in the profitability of stock market anomalies. Our evidence is consistent with managers …
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We investigate the impact on firms of joining the S&P 500 index from 1997 to 2017. We find that the positive announcement effect on the stock price of index inclusion has disappeared and the long-run impact of index inclusion has become negative. Inclusion worsens stock price informativeness and...
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Stock returns around acquisition announcements are widely viewed as being reflective of the net present value created by these transactions. As such, announcement returns should correlate with acquisition outcomes. Using a new measure of realized transaction-level acquisition failure, as well as...
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In early 2019, the stock prices of the German company Wirecard AG experienced market turmoil after several critical reports on activities claimed to be illegal. To analyze the market impact of news, we use stock price data for Wirecard AG and apply the reversed news model. We elaborate on...
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This paper studies the interplay between environmental performance and financial valuation of firms in Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide insights into how environmental considerations are integrated into financial decision-making and investor behavior by analyzing the stock market...
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This paper studies the interplay between environmental performance and financial valuation of firms in Latin America and the Caribbean. We provide insights into how environmental considerations are integrated into financial decision-making and investor behavior by analyzing the stock market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529773