Stock issuance predicts future stock returns in the Korean market. This creates profitable trading opportunities. Abnormal returns exist in the zero-cost portfolio that short the firms issuing large numbers of shares and longs those issuing small numbers of shares. Their average abnormal return...

This paper investigates corporate financing decisions on corporate investment using cases of research and development (R&D) spending. We focus on U.S. firms with large R&D increases in 1986 to 2007, and we find that most firms with increases in R&D outlays use internal funds to finance the...

In the context of China's strict security-offering regulations, we examine market timing by linking firms' decisions to withdraw private placement (PP) proposals to changes in market condition during the approval process. We reveal that timing based on the strictness of the security-offering...

Using daily data from May 2000 to January 2004, this study examines the risk, return, securities selection, and market timing performance of China's securities investment funds (SIFs), in comparison with the performance of the SIFs in the United States. Our results indicate that China investment...