Taxes, Order Imbalance and Abnormal Returns around the ex‐Dividend day

Chaotic Test and Non-Linearity of Abnormal Stock Returns: Selecting an Optimal Chaos Model in Explaining Abnormal Stock Returns around the Release Date of Annual Financial Statements

For many investors, it is important to predict the future trend of abnormal stock returns. Thus, in this research, the abnormal stock returns of the listed companies in Tehran Stock Exchange were tested since 2008- 2017 using three hypotheses. The first and second hypotheses examined the non-linearity and non-randomness of the abnormal stock returns ′ trend around the release date of annual fin...

Investment Taxes and Equity Returns

This paper investigates whether investors are compensated for the tax burden of equity securities. Effective tax rates on equity securities vary over time due to frequent tax reforms and cross-sectionally due to persistent differences in propensities to pay dividends. The paper finds an economically and statistically significant relationship between risk-adjusted stock returns and effective per...

Multiples Valuation and Abnormal Returns

Private Equity Returns and Disclosure around the World*

This paper studies the returns to venture capital and private equity investment based on a sample of 221 private equity funds that are managed by 72 private equity management firms, in 5040 entrepreneurial investee firms, and spanning 33 years (1971 – 2003) and 39 countries from North and South America to Europe and Asia. We make use of four main categories of proxy variables for value-added ac...

Liquidity risk and stock returns around the world

The recent global financial crisis demonstrates that market liquidity is a prominent systematic risk globally. We find that local liquidity risk, in addition to the local market, value and size factors, demands a systematic premium across stocks in 11 developed markets. This local pricing premium is smaller in countries where the country-level corporate boards are more effective and where there...