We re-visit the long-horizon underperformance following seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) from an asset allocation perspective. We focus on the economic value, to a mean-variance investor, of investing in a SEO portfolio relative to a set of benchmark portfolios. As a result, we are able to avoid...

We revisit the evidence on the economic value of the predictive ability of the short rate for excess stock returns using market timing regressions and seven decades of US market data on aggregate indices, size decile portfolios and industry portfolios. We ask two questions. First, has the...

We study the long-run abnormal performance of a sample of UK firms following convertible security issues over the period 1982-1996. We make the following contributions relative to prior research. We are the first to study long-run stock price performance of firms following convertible preference...

We study the cross-section of expected corporate bond returns using an inter-temporal CAPM (ICAPM) with three factors: innovations in future excess bond returns, future real interest rates and future expected inflation. Our test assets are a broad range of corporate bond market index portfolios....

This paper uses a data set consisting of a complete history of all transactions and quotes to examine intraday patterns in trading volume, volatility and the quoted bid-ask spread in the market for FTSE-100 index futures. We also document a number of regularities in the pattern of daily returns...

Several studies have observed a lead-lag relationship between stock index futures and the cash market returns relying largely on the traditional linear tests for Granger causality. Recent research however suggests evidence of nonlinearities in futures and cash market returns. In this study,...

Several studies have examined the nature of the lead-lag relationship between returns in the stock index futures and the cash market. In a perfect market, both assets, which reflect the same underlying value, should react simultaneously to new information. In practice it is observed that the...