Event studies are a common research method in finance and management research. This note argues that the validity of inferences based on announcement effects hinges critically on controls for confounding events and appropriate statistical tests. We present a unique case where data is available...

Investor demand for convertible debt may change over time, due to changes in investor tastes and/or in funds available for convertible investment. We examine whether security-issuing firms cater to temporal fluctuations in investor demand for convertible debt. We find that investor demand...

In this paper, we present the results of an international survey among 313 CFOs on capital budgeting, cost of capital, capital structure, and corporate governance. We extend previous results of Graham and Harvey (2001) by broadening their sample internationally, by including corporate...