Underwriter compensation can be structured as all cash or a combination of cash and warrants. Using a sample of small initial public offerings (IPOs), we find that underwriter compensation contracts that include warrants in exchange for cash can serve as certification for IPO firms by...

In this paper, we test Chemmanur and Fulghieri's (1997) predictions regarding a unit IPO firm's choice of signaling mix as a function of firm riskiness. We find evidence that both the proportion of firm value sold as warrants and the percentage of underpricing is increasing in firm riskiness....

While the vast majority of underwriters charge a gross spread of exactly 7%, as documented in Chen and Ritter (2000), more than a third charge something other than 7%. Among offerings of $50 million and below where underwriters charge the firm other than 7%, two-thirds of issuers pay more than...

Purpose – This study seeks to investigate whether a firm's financial disclosure size can help investors predict performance. Design/methodolgy/approach - Controlling for size and industry, the relationship between financial disclosure size and subsequent stock performance for all Standard and...

Purpose – This paper aims to extend the work by Vafeas and Lie and Lie by developing an empirical model of choice among four alternative mechanisms for distributing cash from corporations to shareholders: a fixed‐price self‐tender offer, a Dutch auction self‐tender offer, an open market...

Purpose – This paper aims to extend the work by Vafeas and Lie and Lie by developing an empirical model of choice among four alternative mechanisms for distributing cash from corporations to shareholders: a fixed-price self-tender offer, a Dutch auction self-tender offer, an open market share...

Purpose – This study seeks to investigate whether a firm's financial disclosure size can help investors predict performance. Design/methodology/approach – Controlling for size and industry, the relationship between financial disclosure size and subsequent stock performance for all Standard...

We examine whether foreign investors impact corporate governance by analyzing the relation between foreign share ownership and pay-performance sensitivity. While the extant literature has examined the impact of foreign ownership, the evidence for emerging markets is limited. We test our...

Internal capital markets (ICMs) provide firms an alternative to costly external financing; however, they also provide an avenue to avoid the monitoring associated with issuing external capital. We argue that firms operating inefficient internal capital markets will avoid outside financing....