There is a standard trade-off in contracts between the provision of incentives and insurance. We hypothesize that this trade-off influences the precision with which firm performance is measured. We find that firm outcomes are measured less precisely when chance plays a large role in these...

This paper is an empirical investigation of the relation between the dispersion on analysts' earnings forecasts and the future performance following a change in the nominal price of shares. On a sample of US splits occurred from 1993 to 2013, we observe a change in the distribution of analysts'...

The emergence of new trading platforms has intensified order fragmentation. Yet, little is known on how this phenomenon affects the behavior of profit maximizing exchanges. I show that fragmentation may allow competing exchanges to retain market power. When order splitting is beneficial for...

The emergence of new trading platforms has intensified order fragmentation. Yet, little is known on how this phenomenon affects the behavior of profit maximizing exchanges. I show that fragmentation may allow competing exchanges to retain market power. When order splitting is beneficial for...

Exit theory predicts a governance role of outside blockholders' exit threats; but this role could be ineffective if managers' potential private benefits exceed their loss in stock-price declines caused by outside blockholders' exit. We test this prediction using the Split-Share Structure Reform...

This paper investigates the relation between institutional herding and stock splits. We use data on buying and selling activity of US institutional investors, from 1994 to 2005. We compute the abnormal correlation of trades among institutional investors in companies that have announced a stock...

Recent theoretical researches in equity market consider that the enhanced liquidity is the principal motivation for stock splits and stock dividends, however, empirical studies find different results and even a decline in liquidity after the announcements or the effectives dates (ex dates) of...