We compare changes in information flow and liquidity around anticipated and unanticipated dividend announcements. When the timing of the news announcement can be anticipated in advance, traditional market microstructure models predict that liquidity will deteriorate before the announcement and...

We study dividend announcements, conditioning on whether the timing of the announcement is anticipated. We find that liquidity deteriorates before (after) anticipated (unanticipated) announcements. We identify both timing and content effects, and also contrast trading volume, price volatility,...

This article extends ex-dividend research by explicitly modeling trading at bid and ask quotations. This refinement distinguishes between buying and selling for long-term investors and short-term dividend capture traders. It also explicitly incorporates the bid-ask spread and eliminates some...

Approximately 20% of the 675 equity mutual funds analyzed in this paper invest in derivatives. We compare the return distributions of equity mutual funds that invest in derivatives to those that do not. We also analyze the use of derivatives to affect intertemporal changes in fund risk. Equity...

This paper examines the relation between two institutional factors affecting stock price measurement, the bid-ask spread and price discreteness, and the increase in return variance after ex-dates of stock splits and stock dividends. Controlling for these measurement effects, the variance of...

This paper uses daily short selling data to examine whether short selling around seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) reflects informed or manipulative trading strategies. We find no evidence of informed short selling around SEO announcements. Around issue dates, higher levels of pre-issue short...

Existing studies of the term structure of interest rates often use spot Treasury rates to represent default-free interest rates. However, part of the premium in Treasury rates is compensation for the risk that short-sellers may default. Since Treasury bill futures are default-free they provide...

Equity derivatives and the institutionalization of equity markets affect the Monday seasonal. The seasonal in the Samp;P 500 declines significantly over 1962-1993. This decline is positively related to the ratio of institutional to individual trading volume. In contrast, the seasonal for small...

Existing empirical studies of the put-call parity condition report frequent, substantial violations. An important problem in interpreting these results is that these studies all investigate American options. While some of these studies attempt to reduce the effects of possible early exercise on...