We develop a firm-level private information index with three unique features. First, the index is a direct measure of the nature and magnitude of private information that is proprietary. Second, it is multi-dimensional. Third, it is not specific to any one setting. We conduct several tests to...

We employ a Japanese dataset endowed with distinctive regulatory features and document that the market reacts again to publicly available “stale” adverse information, to which it has already responded earlier. The effect is observed specifically for the subset of stocks subject to...

We analyze PIPE (Private Investments in Public Equity) transactions in which the issuer experienced class action lawsuits. We explain the associated information effects measured by the announcement wealth effects and the discounts. Counting on a comprehensive, hand-gathered dataset, we show that...

Under short-sales restrictions, we document a phenomenon where the market reacts again to publicly available adverse information, to which it has already responded before. We employ a Japanese dataset endowed with distinctive regulatory features pertaining to trading restrictions for a specific...

We study how access to private equity financing affects real firm activities using a broad panel of publicly traded U.S. firms that raise external equity through private placements (PIPEs) between 1995 and 2008. The public firms relying on PIPEs are generally small, high-tech firms that cannot...

This study examines why private equity issues tend to be a repeated source of financing for public firms. We test the recent operational needs theory of public equity issuance within the context of repeated private equity issues. We find that repeated PIPE issuers burn through cash quickly and...

I examine two sets of incentives faced by corporate CEOs to determine how theyrespond to those incentives. I compare firms that restate financial statements to firmsthat do not restate to test the hypotheses that bank monitoring should provide incentivesto deter misreporting. For relatively less...