Prior research has documented anomalous profits as high as 9% from participating in stock repurchase tender offers. The trading strategy is to buy shares in the market just before offer expiration and tender; it involves a trading horizon of just a few days. The large profits given a short...

Standard contingent claims models of the levered firm examine capital structure choices with the assumption that full offsets of corporate losses are allowed. However, restrictions on tax loss carry-forwards (TLCF) are the rule rather than the exception. The EBIT model of Goldstein et al. (2001)...

We examine the impact of the U.S. bankruptcy procedure on the valuation of corporate securities and capital structure decisions. We provide closed-form solutions for corporate debt and equity values when defaulting firms can either liquidate their assets or renegotiate outstanding debt under...

Comments by the Federal Reserve Chairman often evoked concerns about whether the government would protect bondholders in the event of default by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (F&F). Using a model of capital structure, we analyze the impact of this uncertainty on the value of the implicit subsidy...

In a massive intervention designed to deter speculators, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) bought Hang Seng index stocks in August 1998. These stocks experienced a 24% abnormal return during the intervention period. The abnormal returns are not reversed over the next eight weeks, refuting...

On December 4, 2006, the side-by-side trading of Commodities Exchange (COMEX) Division’s gold and silver futures contracts was launched on Chicago Mercantile Exchange’s Globex electronic trading platform, as a fight-back against the introduction of copies of these contracts from the Chicago...