A front page Sunday New York Times article on a potential development of new drugs to cure cancer caused the price of EntreMed (ENMD) stock to rise from 12.063 at the Friday close, to open at 85 and close near 52 on Monday. Trading volume was more than 400 times the normal trading volume, and...

In June 1997, the Nasdaq stock market and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) each lowered its minimum price increment on most stocks from eighths to sixteenths. Like other researchers investigating similar events, we find that quoted spreads and effective spreads decline on both markets with the...

The valuation of debt and equity, reorganization boundaries and firm's The valuation of debt and equity, reorganization boundaries and firm's optimal dividend policies are studied in a framework where we model strategic interactions between debtholders and equityholders in a game-theoretic...

This paper examines the impact of changes in poliyical administration on the productivity and employment of the entire executive branch of the U.S. government using data compiled under the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Federal Productivity Maesurement Program.