Corrado and Su (1996) provide skewness and kurtosis adjustment terms for the Black-Scholes model, using a Gram-Charlier expansion of the normal density function. In this note we provide a correction to the expression for the skewness coefficient and illustrate the effect on call option prices of...

<heading id="h1" level="1" implicit="yes" format="display">Abstract</heading>We examine misvaluation as a driver of takeover activity in Japan. Mirroring empirical results from the United States, we find that overvaluation is an important factor affecting the dichotomy between acquirers and nonacquirers in Japan. Being affiliated to a "keiretsu" group appears...