Purpose –The purpose of this study is to re-examine the relation between changes in profit margin (?PM) and changes in return on net operating assets (?RNOA) by partitioning on the direction of the change in PM. DuPont analysis provides a means of disaggregating a firm’s return on net...

<heading id="h1" level="3" format="inline" implicit="no">Abstract: </heading>We use the provisions of "SFAS No. 109", "Accounting for Income Taxes", to examine the extent to which stock prices of Internet firms were associated with expectations of future profitability before versus after the 'market correction' in early 2000. We find that the valuation of...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the relation between financial analysts’ ratings of firms’ disclosure policies and the intraday pattern in spreads between specialists’ bid and ask price quotes. Design/methodology/approach – Measure of the disclosure policy is based on...

We find adverse-selection spread components increase sharply in the ratio of trade size to quoted depth, and spike when trade size equals quoted depth. We find that two previously documented and prominent indicators of informed trading, raw trade size and high-trading volume half-hours, offer...

This paper examines the association between block ownership and market liquidity. Blockholders are believed to have access to private, value-relevant information via their roles as monitors of firms' operations. consistent with this, we find that firms with greater blockholder ownership, either...

Electronic limit order books are prevalent in financial markets. Most allow 'hidden orders,' in which the order's information is neither revealed to the market nor reflected in the National Best Bid and Offer quotes. While they enable traders to conceal information, hidden orders lose time...