This paper examines the relationship between investor sentiment and stock index options. More specifically, it investigates the contrasting impact of individual and institutional investor sentiment on value and growth stock options. We take the Nasdaq 100 and Russell 2000 Growth indexes as...

This paper builds on existing asset pricing models in an intertemporal CAPM framework to investigate the pricing of options on interest rate futures. It addresses the issues of selecting the preferred pricing kernel model by employing the second Hansen-Jagannathan distance (HJD) criterion. This...

We study the short-run wealth effect of a sample of 165 foreign divestitures by UK firms 1986-1995. These foreign asset sales by UK firms lead to significantly positive shareholder wealth effects of some 4.8% over the 10 days before and after the announcement day, which are several times larger...

We employ the Barberis, Shleifer and Wurgler (2005) methodology to investigate the impact of changes to the FTSE 100 index on return comovement 1992-2002. For FTSE entries, the average weekly increase in the beta coefficient is 0.38 in univariate regressions and 0.60 in bivariate regressions...

We analyse the short run underpricing anomaly for a unique sample of 569 IPOs on the London Stock Exchange for the period 1985-2000 and find significant differences between the 1985-1997 period and 1998-2000 bubble period. Venture capitalists played a certification role in the former period but...