ldquo;Anchoringrdquo; describes the fact that in forming numerical estimates of uncertain quantities, adjustments in assessments away from an arbitrary initial value are often insufficient. We show that this cognitive bias has significant economic consequences for the efficiency of financial...

We analyze 52 Taiwanese IPOs that were conducted as discriminatory auctions (you pay what you bid) between December 1995 and October 1998. This unique dataset, which complements the Kandel, Sarig, and Wohl (1999, KSW) nondiscriminatory (uniform-price) IPO auction dataset in Israel, includes the...

We investigate why emerging stock market returns tend to be more positively skewed than developed stock market returns. We argue that differences in the quality of corporate governance matter for return skewness. There are two reasons. First, poorly governed economies facilitate risk sharing...

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) provide a good setting to examine intra-industry momentum. The industry is relatively homogenous and well defined, and the industry experienced structural changes that allow us to test alternative explanations for the observed momentum effect. Specifically,...

This study examines the effect of firm-level corporate governance on the cost of equity capital in emerging markets and how the effect is influenced by country-level legal protection of investors. We find that firm-level corporate governance has a significantly negative effect on the cost of...

In this paper, we examine the effect of shareholder rights on reducing the cost of equity and the impact of agency problems from free cash flow on this effect. We find that firms with strong shareholder rights have a significantly lower implied cost of equity after controlling for risk factors,...

Several studies document a robust negative association between net external financing and average stock returns, which is referred to as the external financing effect. Using total asset growth as a comprehensive measure of overall corporate investment and total profitability gross of Ramp;D...

This paper examines the extent to which cultural differences influence the returns of momentum strategies. We measure cultural differences using an index of individualism developed by Hofstede (2001), which we argue is related to overconfidence and self-attribution bias. Our cross-country...