Issuers may compete with each other by issuing similar warrants with the same underlying stocks, causing a supply-side effect on warrant markets. The study provides a theory and supported evidence that put warrants on individual stocks are issued by third party banks in Taiwan and that they...

We develop a model of asset trading with financial leverage in an economy with a continuum of investors. The investors are assumed to have diverse and rational beliefs in the sense of being compatible with observed data. We show that an increase in leverage ratio may cause the stock price to...

As is widely conjectured, duopolists form a cost-sharing cooperative R&D alliance to develop a product - regardless of the probability of research success is either very high or very low. This study establishes that most low probabilities of research success cannot induce a financially...

Benefit from the advantage of externalities, urban agglomerations are playing more and more important roles in regional economic development. However, present literature failed to distinguish the differences between urban agglomerations' pecuniary externality and technology externality. In this...

This study adopts a new perspective, misvaluation, to explain corporate propensity to hold cash. We find a strong cross-sectional relationship between misvaluation and the propensity to hold cash, which can be attributed to firms’ equity-raising activities and the exercise of employee stock...

This study uses the Google search volume index as a direct measure of investor attention to explore the connection between attention-grabbing information and fund flows, future performance, and the survivorship of newly issued funds. We find that investors often engage in attention-driven...

We examine the effect of quantitative easing on the supply of bank loans. During the 2008 quantitative easing, lending banks reduce relatively more loan spreads, offer longer loan maturities, provide larger loans, and loosen covenants for firms whose long-term bond ratings are lower than BBB....

We examine whether investors can improve their investment opportunity sets by adding an IPO portfolio to a set of benchmark portfolios sorted by firm size and book-to-market ratio. Using U.S. IPOs from 1980-2002, we find that adding a value-weighted IPO portfolio does lead to a statistically and...

Previous studies document the reversal in the initial returns of REIT IPOs from overpricing in the 1980s to underpricing in the 1990s. We find that the gross spreads of REIT IPOs decreased significantly in the 1990s. In particular, there is bimodal clustering at the 6.5% and 7.0% levels....

In this paper, we investigate whether the liquidity support from the 2008 quantitative easing (QE) influenced the capital structures of large firms. We find that large firms generally increased their proportions of debt financing and leverage ratios during QE. Among small firms, only those with...