This paper determines the market value of dividends in the UK during periods before and after 1997. Previous studies, which use the ex-dividend day method, tend to provide noisy and potentially biased measures of dividend value. We estimate the value of dividends from the prices of shares that...

The paper presents new evidence on the contribution to price discovery of the upstairs market. The ‘component share' and ‘information share' measures are used, supplemented by the probability of informed trading (PIN) analysis. Most discovery arises downstairs, consistent with previous...

We compare the importance of opportunities for market timing with incentives to manage EPS, in decisions to repurchase. We distinguish between repurchases which are done to distribute cash (payout-related) and those which are conducted to provide shares for re-issue to staff (pay-related). Firms...

We find that when more independent directors rank a directorship high, the firm-specific information content in a firm's stock price increases. Further, independent directors with high reputation incentives serve firms that voluntarily disclose more information and display lower crash risk. We...

Insurance securitization has long been hailed as an important tool to increase the underwriting capacity for companies exposed to catastrophe-related risks. However, global volumes of insurance securitization have remained surprisingly low to date which raises questions over its benefits. In...