Reverse mergers are an alternative method to IPOs for going public and announcement day price reaction to reverse mergers is comparable to the initial day price reaction to IPOs. Most of the academic theories developed thus far to explain the market's reaction to IPOs, however, are not...

This paper describes the market for borrowing corporate bonds using a comprehensive dataset from a major lender. The cost of borrowing corporate bonds is comparable to the cost of borrowing stock, between 10 and 20 basis points, and both have fallen over time. Factors that influence borrowing...

This paper describes the market for borrowing corporate bonds using a comprehensive dataset from a major lender. The cost of borrowing corporate bonds is comparable to the cost of borrowing stock, between 10 and 20 basis points per year. Factors that increase borrowing costs are loan size,...

Chakrabarty, Moulton and Shkilko (2012) claim that they redo Asquith, Oman, and Safaya (2010) and obtain different results. This note shows Chakrabarty, et al. (2012) only redid a portion of Asquith, et al. (2010) and their results for that portion are the same as Asquith, et al. (2010)....

In July 2002, FINRA began mandatory dissemination of price and volume information for corporate bond trades. This paper, using recently released data, measures transparency's effect on trading activity and costs for the entire corporate bond market. Even though trading costs decrease...

This paper demonstrates that the Lee-Ready and other commonly used trade classification algorithms classify short sales as buyer-initiated significantly more than 50% of the time. This result is due in part to regulations which require short sales be executed on an uptick or zero-uptick. In...

Stocks are short sale constrained when there is a strong demand to sell short and a limited supply of shares to borrow. Using data on both short interest, a proxy for demand, and institutional ownership, a proxy for supply, we find that constrained stocks underperform during 1988-2002 by a...

Performance pricing links the interest rate spread on bank debt to a borrower's performance via two options. It gives borrowers an option to reduce interest rates if credit quality improves, and it gives lenders an option to receive higher interest rates if credit quality deteriorates. Contracts...