For determining the expected return, and asset pricing, CAPM (Capital pricing model) is being used dominantly grounded on only market (systematic) risk-factor though several anomalies have been revealed in this model. Fama French (1993) addressed those developed Three-factor model by combining size value factors besides factors. Over time, Carhart (1997) has further a addressing momentum factor...

This paper empirically evaluates the effects of NASDAQ’s $1-minimum-bid-price threshold (known as the one-dollar rule) as part of its listing maintenance criteria. Even though this controversial rule was introduced as early as in September 1991, it remained unexplored by academic research. Empirical evidence compiled in this study suggests that the implementation of this one-dollar rule is just...

This paper examines the role of the federal government in the market for terrorism reinsurance. We investigate the stock price response of affected industries to a sequence of 13 events culminating in the enactment of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) of 2002. In the industries most likely to be affected by TRIA—banking, construction, insurance, real estate investment trusts, transportati...

Ž . We examine the pricing of initial public offering IPO and seasoned equity offering Ž . SEO firms using a stochastic frontier methodology. The stochastic frontier framework models the difference between the maximum possible value of the firm and its actual market capitalization at the time of the offering as a function of observable firm characteristics. Using a new data set, we find that co...

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 stock market facilitates the production and aggregation of private or public information. Using stock trading data and analysts’ ea...

Recent research documents that institutional or large investors act as antagonists to other investors by showing opposite trading behavior following disclosure of new information. Using an extremely comprehensive official transactions data set from Finland, we set out to explore the interrelation between investor size and behavior. More specifically, we test whether investor size is positively ...

I document the profits on a trade that is long the old 30-year Treasury bond and short the new 30-year Treasury bond, and is rolled over every auction cycle from June 1995 to November 1999. Despite the systematic convergence of the spread over the auction cycle, the average profits are close to zero. The difference in repo-market financing rates between the two bonds is a significant cost of ca...

We present a novel social media dataset and employ an automated computational linguistics technique to infer employees’ perceptions of corporate culture. In particular, we provide an empirical test of ‘goal-setting theory’ which states that the extent to which employees perceive their roles to be challenging directly impacts their job satisfaction and firm performance. Our findings are consiste...

I develop a noisy rational expectations equilibrium model with a continuum of states and a full set of options that render the market complete. I show a major difference in equilibrium behavior between models with constant absolute risk aversion (CARA) and non-CARA preferences. First, when informed traders have non-CARA preferences, all equilibria are fully revealing, independent of the amount ...