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, hundreds of tax documents were released. Unlike other events used in previous studies, the litigation risk, which is generally …
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liquidation increases efficiency to financial intermediators ('banks'). By pledging assets in form of a repo contract the bank can … market is 'ignorant' about the bank's risk, it offers more liquidity than the capital market and charges an interest rate … the repo market becomes sophisticated, it only offers as much liquidity as the capital market and charges a risk …
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, and speculators' trading behavior. We make two main points. First, we argue that a new definition of price efficiency is … needed to account for the extent to which prices reflect information useful for the efficiency of real decisions (rather than …
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We find that leverage-initiating stocks experience an increase in return comovement with existing leveraged stocks and a decrease in return comovement with existing zero-leverage stocks in the year after the leverage initiation event. In contrast, stocks that fully deleverage comove more with...
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We provide evidence on market structure and the cost of raising capital by examining market structure changes in US equity markets. Only the Nasdaq's Order Handling Rules (OHR), the one reform that reduced institutional trading costs, lowered the cost of raising capital. Using a...
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This statement presents my views on buybacks and my general reactions to provisions in four pieces of legislation relating to stock buybacks. Part I describes the role of stock buybacks in the economy and offers some “investor-benign” explanations for firms' use of repurchases rather than...
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This research considers the strategies on the initial public offering of company equity at the stock exchanges in the imperfect highly volatile global capital markets with the nonlinearities. We provide the IPO definition and compare the initial listing requirements on the various markets. We...
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This paper analyzes the informational content of 3,365 Moody's credit rating reports, such as rating changes, watchlist announcements, and outlooks, and their impact on financial markets. We test whether the tone or the length of credit rating report have an immediate impact on the equity or...
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This paper considers the implications of asymmetric information in capital markets for entrepreneurial entry and tax policy. In many countries, governments subsidize the creation of new firms. One possible justification for these subsidies is that capital markets for the financing of new firms...
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This paper studies the role of voluntary disclosure in crowding out independent research about firm value. In the model, when inside firm owners make it easier for outside investors to obtain inexpensive biased information from the manager, investors rely less on costly unbiased research. As a...
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