And hence, it is precisely such active traders that may be shown not to have relied on the integrity of the market price or on the allegedly false statement but nevertheless remained in the class through settlement (because of the presumption at the certification stage) that might collect the...

This paper develops a theory in which housing prices, the capital structures of banks (mortgage lenders) and the capital structures of mortgage borrowers are all endogenously determined in equilibrium. There are four main results. First, leverage is a "positively correlated" phenomenon in that...

Our paper extends prior work on abandonment and replacement policies by analyzing the effects of both the Darby and the Fisher interest rate hypotheses. In most of the new cases developed, the effect of increased inflation on economic life is ambiguous. In the abandonment problem, we find a...

We examine both the short-run and long-run responses to the following corporate cash flow transactions: dividend increases and decreases, dividend initiations, and tender offer repurchases. Our focus is the short-run and long-run effects of managerial ownership. We hypothesize that ownership...