This paper investigates the implication of correlation ambiguity to investor behavior, asset pricing and issuers' listing choices from a market microstructure perspective. We introduce two markets to a multi-asset model: Market A is transparent and Market B is opaque, or Market A with low and...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between accounting conservatism and companies’ cross- listing decision and the mediating role of the corporate governance mechanisms: board of directors’ characteristics and ownership structure, on this relationship. Using a sample...

This paper investigates investment behavior across public and privately held firms using a novel firm-level dataset. We use coarsened exact matching to construct a control group of firms with which we compare listed firms before and after listing in a difference-in-differences framework. The...

The world is constantly changing, and with an evolving global environmental crisis, there is a growing trend of Corporate Social Responsibility, and Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) disclosure initiatives. The final report on the new E.U. taxonomy for sustainable activities was...

This paper examines whether larger tick sizes improve or hinder price efficiency using data from implementing and terminating the Tick Size Pilot Program (TSP). We show that the TSP led to increases in various liquidity measures, and its termination restored them to their pre-TSP levels. We also...

This study examines the abnormal returns of Chinese firms cross-listed on both mainland (A-share) and Hong Kong (H-share) stock markets. The results show that the abnormal returns are larger for the existing H-shares cross-listing back as A-shares in the mainland market (H-to-A listings) than...

The study examined the unclaimed dividend and market value of listed firms in Nigerian stock exchange using data covering the period 2010 to 2019. Thus, the data gathered were analyzed using the Augmented Dickey-Fuller of unit root test for the stationarity of the data and autoregressive...

Decision making in the capital market is not always based on rational considerations. Investors' actions are also influenced by psychological characteristics that emerge as human innate nature. These psychological characteristics will encourage different investor reactions. This study aims to...

Using the firm-level data of 33 countries over 10 years (from 2008-2017), we find that the listed firms, on average, have lower marginal products of capital (measured by return on assets) than the unlisted firms in many countries. This implies that the listed firms face less financial...

We explore arbitrage activities for cross-listed stocks and develop a methodology to study the effect of information latency in high-frequency trading. The strategy is a hybrid between triangular arbitrage and pairs trading. The strategy can be generalized to multiple cross-listed stocks...

Brady lists, named after the Supreme Court’s 1963 decision Brady v. Maryland, are lists some prosecutors maintain of law enforcement officers with histories of misconduct that could impact the officers’ credibility. The lists serve as tools for prosecutors to track officer misconduct and...

This paper examines rent sharing in Private Investments in Public Equity (PIPEs) between newly public firms and private investors. The evidence suggests highly asymmetric rent sharing. Newly public firms earn a negative return of up to -15% in the first post-PIPE year, while investors benefit...

This paper examines rent sharing in Private Investments in Public Equity (PIPEs) between newly public firms and private investors. The evidence suggests highly asymmetric rent sharing. Newly public firms earn a negative return of up to -15% in the first post-PIPE year, while investors benefit...

It is naturally expected that a listed parent company which depends on the profits from its listed subsidiaries should mirror the activities of listed subsidiaries as far as the market share price is concerned. Persistent stunted market share price growth for a material listed subsidiary would...

Existing research on institutional proximity falls short in distinguishing between geographic and market proximity in terms of their association with investors’ monitoring influence. We examine the effects of foreign firms’ proximity to the US on their equity performance. We use a unique set...

This paper examines the operating performance of Chinese banks surrounding the stock listing. The results show that while cross-border listed banks overall outperform domestically listed banks, the performances of regional (city and rural) banks and non-eastern coastal banks are inferior to...

This paper aims to explore the effect of the Algiers Stock Exchange listing on real earnings management. The study included 14 non-financial non-listed companies during the period 2015-2019 and six non-financial listed companies during the period 2010-2019. Due to the small number of companies...

This paper studies the impact of a high-frequency investor sentiment measure (New FEARS) on the returns of foreign securities listed in U.S. markets as American Depository Receipts (ADRs). We recreate a high-frequency investor sentiment measure by aggregating search volume indices (SVIs) for a...

Earnings management around corporate events has been widely discussed in literature review which has shown mixed results. Furthermore, prior studies have extensively focused on earnings management around initial public offerings (IPOs) and seasoned equity offerings (SEOs), while less attention...

The 2016 Tick Size Pilot Program is an exogenous shock that incentivized fundamental investors to become more informed by acquiring fundamental firm information. Building on these studies, we examine the effect of the pilot program on earnings guidance. We find that the treatment firms...

Employing the SEC Tick Size Pilot Program that increases the minimum trading unit of a set of randomly selected small-capitalization stocks, we examine whether and how an exogenous change in stock liquidity affects corporate voluntary disclosure. Using difference-in-differences analyses with...

This paper attempts to investigate the effects of the internal corporate governance mechanisms represented in (the size of the board of directors, CEO duality, the administrative ownership, and the ownership of Block Shareholders Ownership) on the profitability of the companies listed on the...

Cross-listing is the listing of a company’s common shares on a different exchange than its primary and original stock exchange. In order to be approved and listed on other stock exchange, company must meet some requirement in both domestic and foreign country, in accounting and auditing policies

We explore latency arbitrage activities with a new arbitrage strategy that we test with high-frequency data during the first six months of 2019. We study the profitability of mean-reverting arbitrage activities of 74 cross-listed stocks involving three exchanges in Canada and the United States....

This paper uses transactions data from the London Stock Exchange to characterize the intraday pattern of security prices and trading volume for securities trading on SEAQ. It focuses in more detail on a sample of U.K. firms that are cross-listed on the NYSE. Using additional data from the...

This paper employs a difference-in-differences approach to study whether a Chinese audit firm improves its competencies through organizational learning after one of its audit teams has a client cross-listed in the US. Among a group of companies that are listed only in China, we define those...

This study aims to examine the determinants that encouraged firms to have a dual listing. Practically, there is a noticeable lack of empirical evidence, as well as the situation of the ASEAN markets integration which is going against the theoretical debate raises the need for more empirical...

This paper aims to understand the impact of demonetisation on the returns of listed firms in the NSE, as well as changes to their corresponding industry level systematic risk. Firstly, this paper examined a larger sample of Indian listed firms and a broader group of industries in its analysis...

Many beneficial ownership registration frameworks fail to obtain beneficial ownership information from listed companies for two main reasons. Either high thresholds in the definition (based on percentage of ownership or voting rights) prevent the identifying of any beneficial owners, or listed...

This paper tests a theory conjecturing that cross-listing can insulate firms from potential hostile takeovers owing to the increased cost concern of bidders. We find a significant and positive relation between the corporate control threat and the likelihood that firms cross-list in a foreign...

This study investigates the association between stock liquidity and the H-share discount using a sample of Chinese cross-listed stocks in A- and H-shares markets. We examine the liquidity hypothesis by employing depth and trading activity variables. Our results suggest that stocks with a higher...

We find that US cross-listing of Canadian stocks enhances domestic high-frequency trading (HFT) activity in the form of both opportunistic trading and market-making. First, US cross-listing boosts HFT low-latency cross-border arbitrage. This highly correlated HFT arbitrage activity across...

The securities fraud, asset-quality management and earnings management perpetrated by Alibaba and other China-based companies that cross-listed their shares in US stock markets (the “SinoCos”) seemed to be a major corporate objective and an integral part of their organizational strategies,...

This study aims to analyse, within the scope of publicly listed Spanish companies, whether the mandatory implementation of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) has had an effect on financial analysts' earnings forecasts and investments in non-cross-listed Spanish companies (those...