Investigates futures market efficiency. Anomalies in asset prices; Test for fads in futures markets; Data description; Price effects; Trading rule tests; Volume effects.

This paper compares the dutch auction and transferable put rights (TPRs) share repurchase mechanisms to the traditional fixed-price tender offer in terms of efficiency, wealth transfers, and corporate control. Using Monte Carlo simulations, it is shown that both alternative mechanisms reduce the...

This paper investigates the effect of share repurchase through transferable put rights (TPRs) on shareholder wealth and corporate control. Transferable put rights make the put option, which is implicit in a tender offer, marketable. Shareholders who do not tender their shares increase their...

In this article we attempt to determine the impact of a defendant's strategic choice of trial mode on the judicial process. In a sequential signalling game setting, we model a criminal trial using varying assumptions regarding the sophistication of the agents, while maintaining the assumption...

Optimal shareholder bidding strategies in a dutch auction share repurchase are derived when shareholder heterogeneity could be due to either differential expectations regarding the firm's future earnings or differential tax bases. Predictions of the theory are tested by analysing the actual...