Prior research has documented anomalous profits as high as 9% from participating in stock repurchase tender offers. The trading strategy is to buy shares in the market just before offer expiration and tender; it involves a trading horizon of just a few days. The large profits given a short...

Stock split ex-dates are associated with both an increased intensity of small investor buying and a positive abnormal return. The broker promotion hypothesis suggests that the increase in relative spread after a split induces brokers to promote splitting stocks to small investors. The trading...

There is little evidence in the literature on the relative importance of the underlying sources of merger gains. Prior literature suggests that synergies could arise due to taxes, market power, or efficiency improvements. Based on Value Line forecasts, we estimate the average synergy gains in a...

Capital gains taxes are conjectured to explain upward sloping supply curves in tender offers. This paper analyzes expiration day returns in Dutch auction tender offers to examine this conjecture. A proxy measure for the capital gains of the marginal tendering stockholder is constructed, based on...

We study ex-dividend returns in Mexico, where an imputation system entitles individual investors to a net dividend tax credit. Based on taxation, we expect ex-day abnormal returns to be negative or at most zero in Mexico. However, they are significantly positive. Because ex-day returns are...

Previous research documents positive ex-dividend day returns in excess of one percent in the unique institutional setting of Hong Kong, where neither dividends nor capital gains are taxed. Short-term arbitrage trades around the ex-day were hampered by physical settlement procedures. After the...

We examine the linkages between returns on Indian global depositary receipts (GDRs) in London and their underlying stocks in India. GDR returns are sensitive to returns observed earlier in India. This sensitivity is more pronounced for more liquid GDRs. Although arbitrage is not feasible for...

The authors document abnormal trading profits in Dutch auction self-tenders. Tender period profits--buying after announcement and selling just before expiration--are 1.74 percent. Buying just before expiration and tendering yields abnormal profits of 1.36 percent. Total profits from buying just...

Given the rapid increase of the number of emerging market stocks being dually listed abroad, it is important to understand the role of the foreign markets in the price discovery process. We examine this issue by studying the role of the London Global Depositary Receipts (GDR) market for Indian...

<heading id="h1" level="3" format="inline" implicit="no">Abstract: </heading>Using methodologies developed by <link rid="b1">Barber and Lyon (1996</link> and <link rid="b2">1997</link>), we examine the long-run operating performance and stock returns of firms around in-the-money calls of convertible preferred stock. Our study intends to be a direct test of the hypothesis that managers call in-the-money...