We identify a group of "suspicious" firms that use stock splits--perhaps, along with other activities--to artificially inflate their share prices. Following the initiation of suspicious splits, share prices temporarily increase, and subsequently decline below their pre-split levels. Using...

This paper employs the quantile autoregressive (QAR) model to examine the forecasting relationship between stock volatility and crude oil volatility. We firstly employ the sup-Wald test to evaluate Granger causality across various quantile levels, which provides valuable information in...

We show that a lack of investor trust affects the revision of cash flow expectations and delays the incorporation of accounting information into the stock price. To overcome investors' dependence on trust, managers can obtain external certification—either through credit ratings or by employing...

We identify a group of investors with a track-record of owning firms that undergo securities class action lawsuits. We hypothesize and find evidence that these investors are ineffective monitors of corporate management. Firms with a large proportion of these shareholders are at greater risk of...