While most papers in finance literature investigate how the stock market reacts to announcements of corporate events, very few study the opposite, how namely, the manager responds to the information from outside investors. In this paper, we examine this issue, using open market share...

Post-issue stock underperformance is driven, at least in part, by young issuers with contemporary decline in idiosyncratic risk (proxied by expected idiosyncratic volatility) exposure. We show that the SEO long-run underperformance primarily occurs in young issuers. The intuition is that young...