This paper examines the market reaction to a press release issued by Intel on Thursday, September 21, 2000. In response to that release, Intel’s stock price dropped 30 percent, erasing over $120 billion of shareholder wealth. By analyzing the press release in conjunction with analyst...

This paper attempts to shed light on the continuing debate regarding executive compensation by comparing the income of S&P 500 CEOs with that of the Presidents of elite private universities. The results reveal that university presidents are paid only a fraction of what CEOs are paid –...

Because much of the value of equity depends on the option characteristics of investment projects, it is not feasible to calculate equity duration directly. As a result, recent literature has focused on estimating equity duration empirically. By using 25 size and book-to-market portfolios, this...

This paper attempts to shed light on the asset pricing questions reaised by recent empirical research. Fama and French, among others, find that variables that are supposed to explain cross-sectional returns, specifically risk parameters that emerge from asset pricing models, have little...