Article history: Received 27 October 2007 Received in revised form 18 June 2008 Accepted 18 June 2008 Available online 26 June 2008 This paper investigates the effect of stock market microstructure on managerial compensation schemes. We propose and empirically demonstrate that the sensitivity of chief executive officer's (CEO's) compensations to changes in stockholders' value is higher when the...

Article history: This paper explores whether the relevance of a conditional multifacReceived 12 July 2012 tor model and autocorrelation in predicting the Russian aggregate Received in revised form 2 October 2012 stock return fluctuates over time. The source of return predictability is Accepted 16 December 2012 shown to vary considerably with information flow. In general, Available online 22 Dec...

Asset pricing formulas generated from representative agent models help in computing the fundamental values of assets that investors plan to hold forever. In contrast, in an economy with heterogeneous agents and active trading, stock prices will persistently deviate from the expected fundamental value even without introducing any explosive bubbles. Particularly, the introduction of heterogeneous...

This paper examines the determinants of stock option introduction as a part of CEO compensation in listed US firms during the 1994-2004 period. The results are consistent with agency costs and recruiting considerations, suggesting that firms do not adjust CEO compensation in order to address the ‘investment horizon’ problem. The findings also suggest that CEO stock option adoption is not necess...

In this paper we examine the link between stock market uncertainty and monetary policy in the US. There are strong arguments why central banks should account for stock market uncertainty in their strategy. Amongst others, they can maintain the functioning of financial markets and moderate possible economic downswings. To describe the behavior of the Federal Reserve Bank, augmented forward-looki...

We study the cross-sectional dispersion in daily stock returns, or daily return dispersion (RD). Our primary empirical contribution is to demonstrate that RD contains reliable incremental information about the future traditional volatility of both firm-level and portfolio-level returns. The relation between RD and future stock volatility is pervasive across time and across different industry po...

Economic theory suggests that the magnitude and direction of a company’s currency risk exposure depends crucially on its fundamental involvement in international trade. For US industries, we find that the stock performance of an import-oriented company moves positively with the performance of the dollar, but the stock performance of an export-oriented company tends to move against the dollar. B...

This paper investigates the use by insiders of private information in their decision to exercise executive stock options. It is the first to categorise the exercise of an executive stock option by the proportion of stock sold at exercise. Consistent with existing research, exercises overall do not yield subsequent abnormal returns. However, we find a marked and significant difference in subsequ...

Using a model of nonlinear decay of the stock pollutant, and starting from the same initial conditions, the paper shows that an optimal tax that corrects for both stock and ßow externalities may result in a lower tax, fewer cumulative emissions (less decay) and higher output at the steady state than a corrective tax that ignores the ßow externality. The “more is less” result emphasizes that set...

In this paper, we provide additional empirical evidence on the impact of institutional investors on stock return dynamics. The Polish pension system reform in 1999 and the associated increase in institutional ownership due to the investment activities of pension funds are exploited as an unique institutional characteristic. Performing a variant of the event study methodology in an asymmetric GA...