In the run-up to the ex-dividend day a measure based on option implied dividends predicts ex-day abnormal stock returns. These expected ex-dividend day returns increase on stocks where it is less worthwhile to capture the dividend, stocks that are less liquid, stocks with high idiosyncratic...

This paper argues that economics sanctions, whether positive or negative, require market power on the part of the sanctioning state(s) and entail distributional consequences. As a result, sanctions result in the growth of state power and the monitoring and punishing of one's own allies and...