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Consistent with asymmetric information arguments, prior research has shown that the financial market typically responds negatively to the announcement of a seasoned equity offering (SEO). Korajczyk and Levy (2003), however, suggest that while some firms time the issuance of their common stock to...
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Purpose -This paper aims to evaluate the risk-adjusted performance of US-based international equity funds using objective statistical measures grounded in modern portfolio theory, and to present the results in a manner which is easily understood by the average investor....
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We study the effect of ownership structure on the informativeness of a firm's earnings as capitalized in stock prices and returns. We hypothesize that informativeness of earnings is decreasing in dual class ownership structure due to purported higher agency costs at dual class firms compared to...
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Why do firms deviate from a one share-one vote regime when going public? We consider three arguments for this choice. Examining data on U.S. IPOs from 1980 through 2008, we do not find that firms that go public with dual class stock so managers have more incentive to invest in hard to monitor...
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