The lack of data on private firms has made it difficult to empirically examine theories of why firms go public. However, both public and private banks must disclose financial information to regulators. We exploit this requirement to explore the going-public decision. Our results indicate that...

Country-level institutional quality is positively correlated with the underpricing of initial public offerings (IPOs). The association is strong for IPOs issued in developed markets, but absent for emerging-market IPOs. We hypothesize that extra-legal institutions, including financial reporting...

We study the impact of derivatives on stock characteristics such as valuation, price efficiency, and liquidity. We resolve the endogeneity issue faced in the extant literature by using an order issued by the Indian market regulator that resulted in delisting of 51 stocks from the derivative...

We analyze the price impact of an exogenous share sale of inside blockholders who were forced to sell a part of their shareholdings following a regulatory change in India. The affected firms experience a negative excess return of 4.3% during the issue week. Crucially, the price impact reverses...

Firms change their dividend policy following changes in their retail trading clientele. Using stock splits as an instrument, we find that a stock split leads to a 5.5 percentage point increase in the proportion of retail trading volume, which subsequently leads to a 0.10 percentage point...

Gapping the quote is a procedure NYSE specialists use to display the direction, size, and likely price impact of an order imbalance in an attempt to attract liquidity suppliers. It appears to be a liquidity event between an immediate block trade and a trading halt. For 85% of our 927 sample...