Capital gains taxes are conjectured to explain upward sloping supply curves in tender offers. This paper analyzes expiration day returns in Dutch auction tender offers to examine this conjecture. A proxy measure for the capital gains of the marginal tendering stockholder is constructed, based on...

We examine stocks of bankrupt firms after the court confirms they will receive nothing. While trading volume is negligible for most worthless stocks, some have sizable trading volume, indicating investor ignorance of their zero intrinsic value. Prices respond irrationally to news in several...

<heading id="h1" level="3" format="inline" implicit="no">Abstract: </heading>Using methodologies developed by <link rid="b1">Barber and Lyon (1996</link> and <link rid="b2">1997</link>), we examine the long-run operating performance and stock returns of firms around in-the-money calls of convertible preferred stock. Our study intends to be a direct test of the hypothesis that managers call in-the-money...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rule 415 (shelf registration) allows eligible firms to register securities that they intend to issue in the next two years. Once the registration is declared effective, firms can enter the market instantaneously. Ineligible issuers, however, are...