The paper investigates whether stock liquidity of firms is valued by lending banks revealing that firms with higher liquidity in the capital market pay lower spreads for the loans they obtain. This relationship is causal as evidenced by using the decimalization of tick size as an exogenous shock...

We investigate the cross-sectional predictive relations between stock returns of two public firms with one firm, the parent, owning partial equity of the other, the subsidiary. We find that high past returns of the subsidiary (parent) predict high future returns of the parent (subsidiary). The...

In this paper, we develop and test five hypotheses relating the takeover premium paid for a target to the investors' divergence of opinion on the target's equity value. For a sample of acquisitions of publicly traded targets, we show that the total takeover premium is higher when investors have...