Contrary to popular belief, layoff announcements do not always lead to reduced employment. Using hand-collected data on layoff announcements for S&P 500 firms, I show that 32% of layoffs announced do not lead to employment downsizing. While the market, in the short run, does not react...

I examine the role of investor attention on seasoned equity offerings' (SEOs) outcomes. I use an archive of Thomson Reuters' news articles and third-party newswires to proxy for investor attention. I find that the volumes of news articles prior to the offerings are positively associated with the...

This paper tests for the stock market reaction to corporate debt-based securities offering. A standard event study framework is applied to calculate and test Average Abnormal Returns (AARs) and Cumulative Average Abnormal Returns (CAARs), both on and surrounding the announcement date. A...

The effect of corporate decisions concerning the profit distribution on market value of a company has been addressed by numerous empirical studies. Observations carried out in developed markets show that dividend initiation decisions result in an increase of abnormal returns. The main objective...

The effects of the decisions concerning the distribution of profits on market value of a company have been addressed by numerous empirical studies. At the beginning of the paper the author presents the main assumptions of complex and usually contradictory dividend policy theories as well as the...

This study examines the effect of rights issue announcement on firms' abnormal returns with respect to Indian firms in chemical, textile, IT and finance sectors respectively. Event study methodology has been used for the purpose of studying the rights issue announcement reaction. Liquidity...

Using daily short sale transactions data for firms traded in the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TWSE) from January 1991 to January 2007, we examine the pattern of short selling trading prior to 338 acquisition announcements. Consistent with the view that short sellers act as informed traders, we find...

Registrations of SEOs serve to galvanize information gathering about issuers. We posit that market reaction to new information influences issuers' decision about their final offer size. The offer size relative to the amount filed initially is a parsimonious measure which helps predict subsequent...