This paper studies the authorization and execution of buybacks in a Kyle micro-structure setting with two informed parties: a speculator who trades on his own account and a manager who implements buybacks for the firm. Buybacks introduce two opposing economic forces. On the one hand, informed...

We examine stock prices and the number of stocks traded around ex-dividend dates of German stocks with tax-free dividend. Tax-free dividends are temporarily tax-exempt, as they reduce the initial purchasing price of a stock. With our analysis of this particular group of German stocks, we can...

Prior literature documents that acquirers earn declining returns to acquisitions as they continue acquiring. Using a novel typology of serial acquirers, we show that subsequent acquisitions by acquirers are predictable ex ante. Controlling for market anticipation, there is little evidence that...

Dividend payments are firm events on a recurring and predictable basis. High returns in the period between announcement-date and ex-dividend date are the main driver for the so-called dividend month premium, which are positive abnormal returns in months in which corporations are predicted to...

This study applies a rolling estimation window approach to adjust for time-varying risk parameters in asset pricing models to compute long-run abnormal returns after major corporate events. Abnormal returns are defined as realized returns minus predicted returns on each day in a five-year,...

Corporate events happen in waves. In this paper, we examine the timing patterns of five different types of corporate event waves (new stock and seasoned equity issues, stock and cash-financed acquisitions, and stock repurchases) using a comprehensive dataset of more than 151,000 corporate...

The neoclassical q-theory is a good start to understand the cross section of returns. Under constant return to scale, stock returns equal levered investment returns that are tied directly with characteristics. This equation generates the relations of average returns with book-to-market,...

We use a fully-specified neoclassical model augmented with costly external equity as a laboratory to study the relations between stock returns and equity financing decisions. Simulations show that the model can simultaneously and in many cases quantitatively reproduce: procyclical equity issuance;...

Taxes and microstructure constraints are often cited as possible explanations for why stock prices drop by less than the dividend on their ex-dates. Using a sample of REITs, which have no significant correlation between dividend size and yield, we find that close-to-open ex-dividend price drops...

The q-theory implies that investment is a first-order determinant of the cross section of expected returns, and that optimal investment drives the external financing anomalies. Our neoclassical model simultaneously and in many cases quantitatively reproduces: Procyclical equity issuance waves;...