This article examines the market discounts and announcement effects of private equity placements in China. We find that, on average, Chinese firms have about 30% market discounts for private placements, which is higher in number than those of US firms. Firms experience positive announcement...

The paper studies the cooperative hedging problem of contingent claims in an incomplete financial market. Firstly we give the characterization of the optimal cooperative hedging strategy for the Black-Scholes model and the Volatility Jump model explicitly, then we consider the problem of...

We propose a new measure of market liquidity based on the investors' optimal searching behaviour. Thus, we add a wealth filter on Pagano (1989)'s measure of liquidity to build the strong tie between endogenous market participation and investor wealth, as has been documented by empirical works.