This paper provides a status-based explanation for convertible securities. An entrepreneur with status concerns inducing risk-taking decides how to finance the firm and how to dynamically manage it. Solving analytically for the optimal security, we find that it is substantially similar to a...

There is sufficient evidence in the popular, legal, and financial literature that informed options trading ahead of scheduled and unexpected corporate events is pervasive. In this review, we piece together the extant evidence on this topic into a cohesive picture, which includes abnormal...

This paper investigates the liquidity effect in asset pricing by studying the liquidity-premium relationship of an American Depositary Receipt (ADR) and its underlying share. Using the Amihud (2002) measure, the turnover ratio and trading infrequency as proxies for liquidity, we show that a...

In an incomplete market economy, all claims cannot be priced uniquely based on arbitrage. The prices of attainable claims (those that are spanned by traded claims) can be determined uniquely, whereas the prices of those that are unattainable can only be bounded. We first show that tighter price...

The objective of this paper is to provide a deeper insight into the links between financial markets and the real economy. To that end, we study the short-term anticipation and response of U.S. stock, Treasury, and corporate bond markets to the first release of U.S. macroeconomic information....

We document the effects of group affiliation on the initial performance of the 2,702 IPOs made in India during three different regulatory regimes in the period 1990-2004. There are two competing hypotheses regarding the effect of group affiliation on a firm's initial performance in the stock...