We study whether employee stock option repricings are in the best interests of shareholders by investigating the excess stock returns associated with timely, non-contaminated announcements of repricings by Canadian firms. We develop four theories of why firms reprice employee stock options, and...

In this study, we extend the findings of Barth, Beaver, Hand, and Landsman (1999) by providing empirical evidence that for three levels of disaggregated earnings, (1) the structure provided by the Feltham-Ohlson model aids in predicting equity market values, and (2) forecasting of equity market...

This paper proposes and tests two roles for summary accounting data in explaining cross-sectional variation in takeover premia. We propose that the target's excess stock return at a takeover bid announcement reflects an expectation that the bidder will extract operating efficiency benefits...

This paper employs Ohlson's (1995, 1998) accounting based equity valuation model to structure an empirical assessment of the pricing of dividends in stock prices. We address two questions. First, to what extent does the pricing of dividends reflect Modigliani and Miller?s (1958, 1961) one-to-one...

Equity carve-outs appear to accurately correlate with the peak in an overvalued stock market. We base this conclusion of market timing on four findings in a sample of 265 carve-outs undertaken by publicly traded parents between 1981 and 1995. First, the mean return on the value-weighted NYSE,...

We explore the importance of book and tax factors in initial public offerings using equity carve-outs undertaken by publicly traded parents. The advantage of such carve-outs over typical IPOs is that the book and tax positions of pre-IPO shareholders can be accurately estimated due to financial...

We find, as predicted, that the differential ability of accrual and cash flow components of earnings to help forecast future abnormal earnings and the persistence of the components results in the components having different valuation implications. We base our tests on Ohlson (1999) applied to...

This paper tests the sharply differing predictions that emerge in Ohlson?s (1995) model from two assumptions about other information v that is reflected in a firm?s equity market value but not in its current financial statements. We find that neither assumption cleanly fits the data. If v is...

We measure and calibrate the racial and ethnic densities (RAEDs) of executives in US public companies. We find that calibrating executive RAEDs against an economic benchmark that captures the historical demand for and supply of top BA/BS qualified proto-executive talent yields different...