Imbalances in supply and demand often cause the price for the same good to vary across geographic locations. Economic theory suggests that if the price differential is greater than the cost of transporting the good between locations, then buyers will shift demand from high-price locations to...

We examine the dynamic forecasting behavior of security analysts in response to their prior performance relative to their peers within a continuous time/multi-period framework. Our model predicts a U-shaped relationship between the boldness of an analyst's forecast, that is, the deviation of her...

In this paper, we examine the impact of NASD Rule 2711, NYSE Rule 472, and the Global Research Settlement on the recommendation performance of independent, affiliated, and unaffiliated analysts. We find that analysts from all three types of institutions issued fewer strong buys following these...

This paper examines the impact of investment banker job changes on the Mamp;A and equity market shares of investment banks. Using a unique sample of job changes between 1998 and 2004, we find, on average, that the bank losing the banker experiences a negative and significant decrease in its...

We examine the impact of firm- and personal-level reputation on the incentives of analysts to curry favor with issuing firms. We find that unaffiliated non-star analysts from high reputation investment banks issue more strong-buy recommendations during high IPO underpricing periods than in low...

In this study we test for the presence of over-optimism in analyst recommendations for a sample of bankrupt firms over the 1995-2001 period. Our findings indicate a pervasive over-optimism in analysts' recommendations. This recommendation bias exists even for firms that are unable to reorganize...

The impact of all-star analyst turnover on initial public offering market share and the performance of initial public offerings is examined. Overall, we find that neither quot;winnersquot; nor quot;losersquot; in the battle for all-star analysts experience a significant change in market share....

We examine the magnitude and the cross-sectional determinants of the adverse selection component of the spread for a sample of 266 closed-end funds traded on the New York Stock Exchange. We find no evidence that the adverse selection component of the spread for closed-end funds is related to...

The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic empirical comparison of the different proxy variables used to measure information asymmetry. We construct different information asymmetry measures based on a firm's growth opportunities, the market microstructure of the firm's stock, and...