Historically, trading volume reported for NASDAQ stocks has been overstated vis-a-vis New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) stocks, due both to the dealer's participation in trades as a market maker and to interdealer trading. Beginning in 1997, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) changed...

Governance scholars debate the value of directors as an effective governance mechanism. We suggest that this value varies with director tenure. We study both how shareholder assessments of the value of individual directors vary with director tenure and whether director tenure actually makes a...

We examine the reliability of Form 13F filings and find significant reporting errors. Using a hand-collected sample of 13F filings by bank holding companies, we show that (1) reported holdings do not always appear on the SEC's Official List, (2) market prices of Official List securities are...

In this paper, we analyze the Delaware incorporation effect on firm value to determine if the positive association found by Daines (2001) still holds. Analyzing a sample from 1997 to 2013, we find that the relationship between Delaware incorporation and firm value is no longer positive, as found...

"According to most research, firms benefit from being listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Nevertheless, 224 of 640 firms that went public from 1993 through 2000 and were eligible for a NYSE listing chose to list their stock on Nasdaq. We hypothesize that this choice may be related to...

We investigate why firms pay a premium when making a tender offer to repurchase shares, and if the size of the premium is related to the elasticity of the supply curve for the firm’s stock. We find that premiums on self-tender offers are related to characteristics of tendering firms, and to...