We analyze the factors that affect security issuance and its impacts on the volatility of stock returns before and after the issuance under heterogeneous beliefs and short sale constraints using the issuing sample of convertible bonds, corporate bonds and stocks in China?s security market during...

This paper examines online stock price effects of cross-listings American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) in Taiwanese companies. Specifically, decision tree and rule base systems were used to analyse the stock price variances of ADRs in the USA and those in Taiwan market to see if the ADR listed in...

This paper examines online stock price effects of cross-listings American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) in Taiwanese companies. Specifically, decision tree and rule base systems were used to analyse the stock price variances of ADRs in the USA and those in Taiwan market to see if the ADR listed in...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to model asymmetric information and study the profitability of venture capital (VC) backed initial public offerings (IPOs). Our mixtures approach endogenously separates IPOs into differentiated groups based on their returns’ determinants. We also...

Who does, and who should initiate costly certification by a third party under asymmetric quality information, the buyer or the seller? Our answer ' the seller ' follows from a non-trivial analysis revealing a clear intuition. Buyer-induced certification acts as an inspection device, whence...

We consider a variant of the Tullock rent-seeking contest. Under symmetric information we determine equilibrium strategies and prove their uniqueness. Then, we assume contestants to be privately informed about their costs of effort. We prove existence of a pure-strategy equilibrium and provide a...

Certifiers contribute to the sound functioning of markets by reducing a symmetric information. They, however, have been heavily criticized during the 2008-09 financial crisis. This paper investigates on which side of the market a monopolistic profit-maximizing certifier offers his service. If...