Restricted stock units (RSUs) are a key component of executive compensation schemes, aligning executive incentives with the long-term goals of the company and compensating for the limitations of traditional stock options. This study empirically analyzes the impact of RSUs on corporate...

This research empirically investigates how the adoption of restricted stock units (RSUs) affects earnings per share (EPS) and operating profit, focusing on variations across industries. RSUs have emerged as a strategic compensation tool for promoting alignment between employee interests and...

This research investigates the responsiveness of climate and low-carbon (green) stock returns to oil prices and conventional energy stock returns, focusing on both contemporaneous and causal relationships, during an oil crisis. Two methodologies are used: vector auto-regressive (VAR) for testing...

With this edition, the European Securities and Markets Authority continues its annual reporting on EU prospectuses under Article 47 of the Prospectus Regulation (PR). This market report covers data for prospectuses approved in 2023. As data are reported at ISIN level, the report also contains...

Accruals are regarded as investments in working capital and are an integral component in the growth process of firms. By assuming asymmetry of information among investors when predicting the returns on such investments, investors are exposed to adverse selection problems. Consequently, in market...

Der Sammelband enthält die Schriftfassung der Vorträge zur Tagung »Elektronische Aktien«, die anlässlich des Gesetzgebungsverfahrens zum Zukunftsfinanzierungsgesetz am 15. Mai 2023 in der Hessischen Landesvertretung in Berlin stattfand.

We use the tools of mechanism design, combined with the theory of risk measures, to analyze how a cash constrained owner of an asset with known stochastic returns raises capital from a population of investors that differ in their risk aversion and budget constraints. The issuer partitions the...

Prior research documents a positive relation between controlling shareholders’ share pledge and the probability of stock repurchase announcement. This study investigates whether and how stock mispricing and corporate governance affect this relation. By extending the framework of Chan, Chen,...

This paper contains a brief discussion of shareholders' equity in the company. Equity is the owner's right to the company's assets after all obligations are paid. The equity of a company can be calculated by subtracting the company's liabilities from the company's total assets. In other words,...

This article explores price impact in the context of securities fraud litigation, focusing on the probability of observing directionally-consistent abnormal returns (those that go in the direction of a plaintiff's theory of liability) under the hypothesis of price impact versus no price impact....

Recent declarations and investigations by the Securities and Exchange Commission suggest that blockchain-based assets are potentially subject to regulation as securities under the Securities Act. This Article presents a systematic analysis of the risks and embedded costs of investments in...

This chapter examines dual class common stock. Dual class stock has evolved from a vehicle used largely by insiders in family owned and media companies to retain control into a popular capital structure for founders and initial shareholders in technology start-ups. After briefly reviewing the...

Dual-class stock creates a two-tiered ownership structure that allows new investors to buy a piece of a fast-growing company, with just one catch: they become second-class shareholders who have little or no voting power in the corporation. A rich literature debates whether this arrangement,...

Using a large database of complex securities, I study how salient attributes of security design distort household investment decisions. I show banks add non-standard (fine-print) conditions to artificially increase advertised rates of headline return and downside protection-a phenomenon I term...

If securities regulation curbs greenwashing, institutional shareholders catering to climate-conscious beneficiaries are profit-seeking, Socially Responsible (SR) investors with a mandate to ameliorate climate change. SR investors can contribute to sustainable corporate governance making...

Chinese firms can suspend trading of their stocks when they announce major events. We find that stock-swap acquirers tend to suspend stock trading after a significant stock price run-up. Suspending bidders show significantly high returns both in the short and long run following the announcement...

Directional bets by short sellers typically forecast future returns, but direct evidence of how other investors acquire information from these bets is nearly nonexistent. Using granular data on the entire Brazilian OTC security lending market and all trades in the Brazilian stock exchange, we...

A liquidity-constrained asset owner designs an asset-backed security to raise funds from an informed liquidity supplier. Information insensitive securities reduce the liquidity supplier's informational rents. The issuer optimally screens the liquidity supplier's private information by offering a...

Exchanges and index providers increasingly push firms to equalize shareholder voting rights. We explore the potential harm arising from dual-class structures by studying the identity and returns of minority shareholders. First, we find that sophisticated investors disproportionately own...

We examine the canonical influence of global market, currency and inflation risks on the returns from international real estate securities. In addition, we study how mispricing of credit in the local banking systems is related to the returns from these securities. We analyse a global sample of...

This study examines whether relevant accounting ratios influence the stock prices of high-technology service enterprises in five countries, namely, the United States, Japan, China, the United Kingdom, and France. Subsequently, this study determines the existence of pricing error (if any) between...

In recent years, a great deal of attention has been devoted to the use of neural networks in portfolio management, particularly in the prediction of stock prices. Building a more profitable portfolio with less risk has always been a challenging task. In this study, we propose a model to build a...

This study aims to test and analyze the effect of capital structure, profitability, investment opportunity set, firm value, earnings per share, and dividend policy, on stock returns. Our research uses regression analysis to determine and analyze the influence of independent variables on...