This paper uses pre-offer market valuations to evaluate the misvaluation and Q theories of takeovers. Bidder and target valuations (price-to-book, or price-to-residual-income-model-value) are related to means of payment, mode of acquisition, premia, target hostility, offer success, and bidder...

Insurance guarantee schemes (IGSs) aim to protect policyholders from the costs of insurer insolvencies. However, IGSs can also reduce the incentives of insurers to conduct appropriate risk management. We investigate the risk-taking behavior of a stock insurer under insurance guarantee schemes...

We conduct interviews with financial managers in Australia, Canada, the U.K., and the U.S. to study the question why companies issue convertible bonds. For the vast majority of the firms, convertible bonds are chosen because managers find straight debt too costly. Convertible bonds are preferred...

We test how market overvaluation affects corporate innovation. Estimated stock overvaluation is very strongly associated with measures of innovative inventiveness (novelty, originality, and scope), as well as R&D and innovative output (patent and citation counts). Misvaluation affects R&D more...

These are the presentation slides for the paper. We test whether and how equity overvaluation affects corporate financing decisions using an ex ante misvaluation measure that filters firm scale and growth prospects from market price. We find that equity issuance and total financing increase with...

Insurance guarantee schemes (IGSs) aim to protect policyholders from the costs of insurer insolvencies. However, IGSs can also reduce the incentives of insurers to conduct appropriate risk management. We investigate the risk-taking behavior of a stock insurer under insurance guarantee schemes...

These are the presentation slides for the working paper. We test how market overvaluation affects corporate innovation. Estimated stock overvaluation is very strongly associated with R&D, innovative output, and measures of innovative novelty, originality, and scope. R&D is much more sensitive...

We revisit the survey questions on convertible bond issue motives from the influential study of Graham and Harvey (Journal of Financial Economics, 2001). Our question-conditional analysis connecting survey answers with firm characteristics reveals that the conclusions on two of the four...

We apply an ex ante measure of heterogeneity in investor beliefs - excess industry volatility - to test the Miller (1977) prediction about IPO overvaluation in a sample of 7,212 IPOs from 1980 to 2003. Generally, IPOs in industries with high investor heterogeneity of beliefs have much higher...

A supply chain will evolve with the product updating and different stages of the product life cycle. When the downstream manufacturers initiate new-technology products with emerging technology to the market, the upstream suppliers who independently carry out innovative R&D need to make R&D...