This study examines the effect of CEO characteristics on the value of excess cash using the listed firm data in Korea. We find that firms with business major CEO have significantly higher value of excess cash compared to the other firms, but science and engineering major have no significant...

Bond ETFs trading at a premium (discount) to NAV experience more creations (redemptions) than those trading at parity. When these transactions occur, subsequent returns partially offset the premium or discount. These results suggest that arbitrage trading between the underlying bonds and the...

This article examines ETF creations and redemptions around price deviations and finds that the expected arbitrage trades are relatively rare in a broad sample of equity index ETFs. In the absence of these trades, price deviations persist much longer. Creation and redemption activity appears to...