We provide novel evidence supporting the view that stock prices of some firms in the early growth stage of their life cycle are set by optimistic investors fixated on sales growth. We identify these firms as those that went public during an industry IPO waves, had high sales growths but low...

As illustrated in the tale of “the dog that did not bark,” the absence of news and the passage of time often contain information. We test whether markets fully incorporate this information using the empirical context of mergers. During the year after merger announcement, the passage of time...

This paper analyzes how a stock's liquidity, turnover, volatility and returns are driven by short term fluctuations in investor attention. Attention-grabbing stocks are identified by their daily Google Search Volume. A newly developed download algorithm allows the creation of a search volume...

In this paper we address the issue of counterparty credit risk in Exchange Traded Notes (ETNs). An ETN is a tracking product which is designed as an unsecured debt security. As such, it is subject to the issuers default risk. We describe a standard reduced-form pricing framework to gauge the...

Using hand-collected TV programming data and intra-day trading from China, we compare the trading, liquidity, and returns of on-show and off-show stocks in the same sector. Our difference-in-difference analysis reveals that post-show, off-show stocks experience significant improvements in...

Acest articol investighează prezenţa Efectelor Gone Fishin' pe Piaţa Românească de Capital între ianuarie 2000 şi iulie 2013. In această analiză folosim valorile zilnice pentru cinci indici principali ai Bursei de Valori Bucureşti. Utilizăm modele GARCH pentru a revela această...

This paper investigates the turn-of-the-month effects presence on stock markets from 32 countries during two periods of time: a relative quiet one from January 2000 to December 2006 and a turbulent one from January 2000 to October 2013. We found some significant changes that occurred from the...

Social interaction contributes to stochastic volatility and momentum in financial markets. By developing a simple evolutionary model of asset pricing and population game, we incorporate social interaction among investors with information uncertainty and show that social interaction leads to the...

This paper analyzes the relevance of Behavioral Finance in the functioning of financial markets. As a result of the empirical evidence through four surveys to professional investors with an average of 92 respondents, our main focus is to enhance the structure and systematization in the field. We...

We present the "Tax Day Trade," a one day trade that gains an average of 1/2%. The trade was developed using the "Strategic Analysis of Markets Method (SAMM)" described in the two volume series "The Strategic Analysis of Financial Markets" (forthcoming from World Scientific). Detective work...