This study investigates the shareholder wealth effects of voluntary foreign delistings for the first time using a sample of US firms delisted voluntarily from Japan. Using conventional event study methodology, no significant price changes are found following the delisting events, consistent with...

We investigate possible reasons for voluntary delistings by U.S. firms from the Tokyo Stock Exchange from 1982 to 2005. We find that the small shareholder base, as measured by low turnover, for U.S. stocks in Japan helps to explain the voluntary foreign delistings. This finding is consistent,...

This paper presents option-pricing solutions to the inventory-stocking problem when demand is distributed discretely or continuously. The model readily incorporates inventory salvage values and stockout costs, and shows that option-pricing models can be used to determine the optimal stocking...