The study is an attempt to reexamine the relationship between nominal effective exchange rates and real effective exchange rates in India. The study investigates both long-run and short-run relationships between the two variables by using Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds tests...

This paper demonstrates that winning a takeover bidding contest can be `bad news' and, consequently, losing can be `good news.' This result is true even when all bidders are acting rationally in their own best interests and have perfect information on their valuations. Bidders with toeholds...

When bankrupt firms are sold, they are often repurchased by their former owner or manager. These insiders are by default better informed than outsiders about the true value of the firm or its assets, so other potential buyers must worry about overpaying if they win. The presence of insiders may...

Firms sometimes commit fraud by altering publicly reported information to be more favorable, and investors can monitor firms to obtain more accurate information. We study equilibrium fraud and monitoring decisions. Fraud is most likely to occur in relatively good times, and the link between...

Close to 50% of municipal bonds are pre-packaged with insurance at the time of issue. We offer a tax-based rationale for the emergence of third-party insurance of tax-exempt bonds. We argue that insurance adds value as it allows a third party to become, in a probabilistic sense, an issuer of...

Stapled Finance is a loan commitment arranged by a seller in an Mamp;A setting. The key feature is that whoever wins the bidding contest has the option (not the obligation) to accept the loan commitment. Stapled finance has become common: in 2004, it was offered in 39% of US deals that involved...

We analyze the impact of verifiability on how signals about agents are used to mitigate adverse selection. We show that if signals are verifiable the observed practice of collecting information about agents before contracting is inferior to writing contingent contracts. This holds regardless of...