Using a clean sample of private equity placements over the period of 1999 to 2012, we examine the effects of trading restrictions on the discounts on private placements. Classifying various determinants into three categories, namely risk, illiquidity, and marketability, we show that risk and...

The idiosyncratic volatility anomaly, as first documented in Ang, Hodrick, Xing, and Zhang (2006), has received considerable attention in the literature. In this paper, we examine the pervasiveness of the anomaly in various stock samples and provide evidence towards distinguishing potential...

We argue that active fund managers can pick stocks only when the market presents such opportunities. We propose measures of stock selection opportunity and show evidence that a significant portion of mutual funds time stock selection, i.e., trading more when stock selection opportunities are...