This paper examines price reactions to analysts' recommendations issued in the opposite direction of recent stock price movements. We find that upgrade and downgrade contrarian recommendations induce larger market reactions than non-contrarian recommendations, consistent with the view that they...

We examine over 7,400 analyst recommendations in the year after going public for IPOs from 1999-2000. Initiations at the end of the quiet period come almost exclusively from affiliated analysts, while initiations afterwards are predominantly from unaffiliated analysts. Once we control for...

We investigate the pricing of 4,523 initial public offerings of common stock with offer dates between 1981 and 2000. Our study documents that approximately three-fourths of IPOs have integer offer prices. Average initial returns for IPOs with integer offer prices are significantly higher (25.5...

This paper examines the impact of investment banker job changes on the Mamp;A and equity market shares of investment banks. Using a unique sample of job changes between 1998 and 2004, we find, on average, that the bank losing the banker experiences a negative and significant decrease in its...

We examine the impact of firm- and personal-level reputation on the incentives of analysts to curry favor with issuing firms. We find that unaffiliated non-star analysts from high reputation investment banks issue more strong-buy recommendations during high IPO underpricing periods than in low...

Most initial public offerings (IPOs) feature so-called quot;lockupquot; agreements, which bar insiders from selling the stock for a set period following the IPO, usually 180 days. We examine stock price behavior in the period surrounding lockup expiration for a sample of 2,529 firms over 1988 to...

We examine the market consequences of due diligence (DD) reports on Reddit’s Wallstreetbets (WSB) platform. We find average ‘buy’ recommendations result in two-day announcement returns of 1.1%. Further, the returns drift upwards by 2% over the subsequent month and nearly 5% over the...

Using hand-collected biographical information on financial analysts from 1983 to 2011, we find that analysts making forecasts on firms in industries related to their pre-analyst experience have better forecast accuracy, evoke stronger market reactions to earning revisions, and are more likely to...

We examine the causal effect of unionization on firm innovation. To establish causality, we use a regression discontinuity design relying on “locally” exogenous variation generated by elections that pass or fail by a small margin of votes. Passing a union election leads to an 8.7% (12.5%)...