We investigate why firms pay a premium when making a tender offer to repurchase shares, and if the size of the premium is related to the elasticity of the supply curve for the firm’s stock. We find that premiums on self-tender offers are related to characteristics of tendering firms, and to...

"According to most research, firms benefit from being listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Nevertheless, 224 of 640 firms that went public from 1993 through 2000 and were eligible for a NYSE listing chose to list their stock on Nasdaq. We hypothesize that this choice may be related to...

The turn-of-the-year (or January) effect is persuasive and well-documented anomaly in the financial markets. This paper examines this effect in the corporate bond market and documents a strong January effect in both the yield and the returns of corporate bonds. The paper investigates the...