We examine the influence of investor conferences on firms' stock liquidity. We find that firms participating in conferences experience a 1.4% to 2.8% increase in stock liquidity compared to non-conference firms. Consistent with investor conferences improving firm visibility, the increase in...

I hypothesize firms in highly innovative industries — those with high risk, yet higher potential return — will be more likely to raise funds through stock markets than firms in mature industries. Using the product life-cycle as a theoretical framework, this is all placed within the context...

I hypothesize that highly innovative firms — those with high risk, yet higher potential return — will be more likely to raise funds through stock markets than through bond issuance. Using the Schumpeterian innovation life-cycle as a theoretical framework, I argue that that in the beginning,...

Given that prior research into industry cost of equity indicates that CAPM-derived estimates are no worse than estimates from more complex models, we investigate the bias of the standard CAPM approach for each industry separately, and examine the effectiveness of alternative beta estimators. We...

While discussing risk issues someone told me as a joke that she wished the world were riskless and the fact that risk were present in any instance in our lives was a rather unfortunate circumstance. But would we be really better off in a riskless world?Although it may appear to be a trivial...

This article represents working notes about algorithmic finance, designed as an introduction to the basic equations that drive financial planning algorithms. They focus on establishing closed form solutions to the problem of finding the maximum amount of money that an investor may withdraw from...

How many and which firms issue equity and bonds in domestic and international markets, how do these firms grow relative to non-issuing firms, and how does firm performance vary along the firm size distribution (FSD)? To evaluate these questions, we construct a new dataset by matching data on...

If two investments have the same payoff covariance with the market but one has higher expected payoff, which asset according to the CAPM has most risk? One answer is that as far as risk goes the two assets are the same, because they have the same covariance with the market. The correct answer,...

The Financial Crisis of 2008/2009 increased plan sponsors' desire to control risk — and we are still seeing the unfortunate effects. Many approaches adopted to control risk are illusions of risk control. Of particular concern is how sponsors are misapplying tools designed to monitor...

We examine whether the presence of privately informed traders, and information asymmetries between these traders and the rest of investors, undermine the role of accounting information in mitigating financing constraints and reducing under-investment problems. In line with prior research, we...