Exploiting mergers between lenders and shareholders of the same firm as an exogenous shock to dual ownership, we examine the role that dual holdings (i.e., simultaneous equity and debt holding) play in shaping firms’ ex ante expected stock price crash risk evident in the options implied...

This study analyzes the consistency between analysts’ stock views and their revisions of earnings forecasts, price targets, and recommendations. A hidden Markov model (HMM) is employed to extract analysts’ views. The results show that consistent revisions (i.e., upgrades accompanied by...

This study provides the first large-sample empirical analysis on the characteristics, determinants, and returns from appraisal petitions during 2000-2014. We find that appraisal petitions increase from 2-3% of the eligible M&A deals in the early 2000s to around 25% of such deals in the most...

This paper examines how speculation in financial markets can affect real investments and asset prices with asymmetric adjustment costs. Investors with recursive preferences have heterogeneous beliefs about real productivity and some extraneous risk and trade them in financial markets....