1.
The Cross-section of Managerial Ability, Incentives, and Risk Preferences
EFA 2008 Athens Meetings Paper, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 88
Posted: 23 Mar 2009
Last Revised: 17 Oct 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads
2,424
2.
Cross-Sectional Stock Option Pricing and Factor Models of Returns
EFA 2008 Athens Meetings Paper, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 23 Dec 2008
Last Revised: 04 Jan 2009
Working Paper Series
Morgan Stanley, Carnegie Mellon University and Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business
Downloads
683
3.
AFA/ASE Panel: Implications of the Credit Crisis for the Regulation of Non-Bank Financial Firms
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper, Rock Center for Corporate Governance Working Paper No. 40
Number of pages: 1
Posted: 26 Aug 2008
Last Revised: 29 Sep 2009
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Graduate School of Business, Boston College - Department of Finance, PIMCO Europe Ltd. and Azimuth Alternative Assets Management LLLP
Downloads
516
4.
Are All Inside Directors the Same? Evidence from the External Directorship Market.
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 241/2009, 3rd Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Papers, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 90
Posted: 22 Apr 2008
Last Revised: 04 Sep 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of New South Wales, Sydney and University of Alabama - Culverhouse College of Business Administration
Downloads
1,631
5.
Corporate Governance and Capital Structure Dynamics
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 27 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 25 Dec 2010
Working Paper Series
Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of Lausanne and University of Lausanne
There are 2 versions of this paper
Corporate Governance and Capital Structure Dynamics
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 27 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 25 Dec 2010
Downloads
2,692
Corporate Governance and Capital Structure Dynamics
Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 09-10
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 20 Apr 2009
Last Revised: 25 Dec 2010
Downloads
568
Downloads
2,692
6.
What Segments Equity Markets?
Netspar Discussion Paper No. 02/2011-031, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper, National Bank of Poland Working Paper No. 76
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 27 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 19 Sep 2012
Working Paper Series
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics, Duke University - Fuqua School of Business, University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
There are 3 versions of this paper
What Segments Equity Markets?
Netspar Discussion Paper No. 02/2011-031, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper, National Bank of Poland Working Paper No. 76
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 27 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 19 Sep 2012
Downloads
2,132
What Segments Equity Markets?
NBER Working Paper No. w14802
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 24 Mar 2009
Last Revised: 19 Sep 2012
Downloads
58
What Segments Equity Markets?
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8142
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 27 Dec 2010
Downloads
6
Downloads
2,132
7.
The Impact of Iceberg Orders in Limit Order Books
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 27 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 02 Jun 2009
Working Paper Series
Leibniz Universität Hannover and University of Virginia
Downloads
946
8.
The Interim Trading Skills of Institutional Investors
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 27 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 10 Jun 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Tennessee, Knoxville and University of Missouri - Columbia
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Interim Trading Skills of Institutional Investors
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 27 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 10 Jun 2010
Downloads
695
The Interim Trading Skills of Institutional Investors
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 28 Jun 2010
Downloads
172
Downloads
695
9.
Uncertainty About Average Profitability and the Diversification Discount
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 96, pp. 463-484, 2010, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Posted: 27 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 19 Oct 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Georgia, Fisher School of Accounting and Tulane University - A.B. Freeman School of Business
10.
When Active Fund Managers Deviate from Their Peers: Implications for Fund Performance
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
, Journal of Banking and Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 26 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 03 Dec 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Loyola University Chicago - Department of Finance
Downloads
471
11.
What Does Individual Option Volatility Smirk Tell Us About Future Equity Returns?
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 26 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 15 Aug 2008
Working Paper Series
Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance, BlackRock, Inc. and Rice University
Downloads
5,879
12.
Buy High and Sell Low
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 26 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 10 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Toronto - Joseph L. Rotman School of Management
Downloads
2,211
13.
When Do Firms Default? A Study of the Default Boundary
EFA Moscow Meetings Paper, AFA San Francisco Meetings Paper, WFA Keystone Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 26 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 06 Nov 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Toronto - Finance Area
Downloads
1,819
14.
Corporate Credit Spreads under Parameter Uncertainty
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 26 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 30 Nov 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads
1,597
15.
The Shareholder Base and Payout Policy
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 12-11
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 26 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 01 Feb 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Illinois at Chicago and University of Zurich - Department of Banking and Finance
Downloads
678
16.
Risk Allocation and Flexibility in Acquisitions: The Economic Impact of Material-Adverse-Change (MACs) Clauses
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 26 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 21 Apr 2009
Working Paper Series
Baylor University
Downloads
670
17.
Disclosure and Agency Conflict in Delegated Investment Management: Evidence from Mutual Fund Commission Bundling
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 26 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 15 May 2011
Working Paper Series
Virginia Tech, University of Virginia - Darden School of Business and Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University - Pamplin College of Business
Downloads
475
18.
Why Do Small Stock Acquirers Underperform in the Long-Term?
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 26 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance and Ohio State University (OSU) - Fisher College of Business
Downloads
474
19.
Investor Expectations, Business Conditions, and the Pricing of Beta-Instability Risk
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper, EFA 2007 Ljubljana Meetings Paper, Yale ICF Working Paper
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 27 Jan 2013
Working Paper Series
Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance, University of Alberta - School of Business and University of Alberta - School of Business
Downloads
1,142
20.
Market Participation and Dividend Clienteles
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 20 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
Texas A&M
Downloads
194
21.
Weather and Time Series Determinants of Liquidity in a Limit Order Market
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 13 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business and HEC Paris - Finance Department
Downloads
440
22.
Risk and Return Characteristics of Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurial Companies
Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and Dartmouth College - Tuck School of Business
There are 3 versions of this paper
Risk and Return Characteristics of Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurial Companies
Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 13 Jan 2015
Downloads
1,223
Risk and Return Characteristics of Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurial Companies
The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 23, No. 10, pp. 3738-3772, 2011
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 27 Oct 2011
Downloads
104
Risk and Return Characteristics of Venture Capital-Backed Entrepreneurial Companies
Netspar Discussion Paper No. 01/2011-033
Number of pages: 64
Posted: 25 Apr 2011
Downloads
81
Downloads
1,223
23.
Aggregate Idiosyncratic Volatility
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper, EFA 2009 Bergen Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 28 Jun 2011
Working Paper Series
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics, Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics and Tsinghua University - PBC School of Finance
There are 3 versions of this paper
Aggregate Idiosyncratic Volatility
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper, EFA 2009 Bergen Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 28 Jun 2011
Downloads
1,840
Aggregate Idiosyncratic Volatility
NBER Working Paper No. w16058
Number of pages: 75
Posted: 07 Jun 2010
Downloads
35
Aggregate Idiosyncratic Volatility
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8149
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 27 Dec 2010
Downloads
3
Downloads
1,840
24.
Sequential Learning, Predictability, and Optimal Portfolio Returns
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 04 Apr 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics, University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
Downloads
1,558
25.
Opening the Black Box: Internal Capital Markets and Managerial Power
Journal of Finance 68, 2013, 1577-1631 , EFA 2007 Ljubljana Meetings Paper, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 112
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 30 Jan 2015
Working Paper Series
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) - Faculty of Business Administration (Munich School of Management), SKEMA Business School and Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
Downloads
1,531
26.
Political Connections and Minority-Shareholder Protection: Evidence from Securities-Market Regulation in China
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Vol. 45, No. 6, pp.1391-1417, 2010, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 01 Mar 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of Auckland - Business School, Florida Atlantic University and Standard Charter Bank
Downloads
1,205
27.
Lending Relationships and Loan Contract Terms
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper, Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 29 Feb 2012
Working Paper Series
Arizona State University (ASU) - Finance Department, Georgetown University - Department of Finance, New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and National University of Singapore - Department of Finance
Downloads
1,192
28.
Empty Voting and the Efficiency of Corporate Governance
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 27 Mar 2010
Working Paper Series
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business and University of Maryland - Department of Finance
Downloads
1,091
29.
Short Selling Around Seasoned Equity Offerings
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 03 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Miami University and University of Washington - Michael G. Foster School of Business
Downloads
956
30.
Family Control of Firms and Industries
Financial Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 21 Dec 2011
Working Paper Series
New York University (NYU) - Leonard N. Stern School of Business and The Wharton School UPENN
Downloads
910
31.
Intermediated Investment Management
Journal of Finance, Vol. 66, No. 3, pp. 947-980, 2011, EFA 2007 Ljubljana Meetings Paper, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 18 Mar 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Vienna University of Economics and Business, University of Oregon - Lundquist College of Business and Vienna University of Economics and Business
Downloads
910
32.
Market Selection
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 16 Nov 2016
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Sloan School of Management and University of Washington
There are 3 versions of this paper
Market Selection
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 16 Nov 2016
Downloads
816
Market Selection
NBER Working Paper No. w15189
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 04 Aug 2009
Last Revised: 05 Jul 2010
Downloads
81
Downloads
76
Downloads
816
33.
Stochastic House Appreciation and Optimal Mortgage Lending
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 20 Aug 2011
Working Paper Series
Columbia Business School - Finance and Economics and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Finance
Downloads
724
34.
Is Noise Trading Cancelled Out by Aggregation?
Yale ICF Working Paper No. 08-10, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 08 Feb 2010
Working Paper Series
DePaul University
Downloads
664
35.
Sheltering Corporate Assets from Political Extraction
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 29 Jun 2009
Working Paper Series
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, Purdue University - Krannert School of Management and Purdue University
Downloads
615
36.
Economic Implications of Nonlinear Pricing Kernels
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 21 Dec 2016
Working Paper Series
Princeton University and Université de Montréal - CIREQ - Département de sciences économiques
Downloads
607
37.
Liquidity Risk and Syndicate Structure
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper, 21st Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2008 Paper
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
Simon Fraser University and Boston College - Department of Finance
There are 2 versions of this paper
Liquidity Risk and Syndicate Structure
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper, 21st Australasian Finance and Banking Conference 2008 Paper
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Downloads
442
Liquidity Risk and Syndicate Structure
NBER Working Paper No. w13802
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 13 Feb 2008
Last Revised: 19 Sep 2010
Downloads
63
Downloads
442
38.
Do Banks Price Their Informational Monopoly?
EFA 2007 Ljubljana Meetings Paper, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 29 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco and Federal Reserve Bank of New York
There are 2 versions of this paper
Do Banks Price Their Informational Monopoly?
EFA 2007 Ljubljana Meetings Paper, AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 29 Mar 2008
Downloads
430
Do Banks Price Their Informational Monopoly?
Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 93, 2009
Posted: 26 Sep 2009
Downloads
430
39.
Reduced-Form Valuation of Callable Corporate Bonds: Theory and Evidence
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2008
Working Paper Series
Cornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business, Washington State University - Vancouver and SUNY at Buffalo - School of Management
There are 2 versions of this paper
Reduced-Form Valuation of Callable Corporate Bonds: Theory and Evidence
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 22 Mar 2007
Downloads
608
Reduced-Form Valuation of Callable Corporate Bonds: Theory and Evidence
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2008
Downloads
410
Downloads
410
40.
Real Investment, Risk and Risk Dynamics
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 12 Jun 2009
Working Paper Series
BI Norwegian Business School and Norwegian Business School
Downloads
379
41.
Investment Horizon of the Bond Investor Base and the Leverage of the Firm
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2010
Working Paper Series
INSEAD - Finance, University of California, Davis - Graduate School of Management and City University of Hong Kong
There are 2 versions of this paper
Investment Horizon of the Bond Investor Base and the Leverage of the Firm
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2010
Downloads
327
Investment Horizon of the Bond Investor Base and the Leverage of the Firm
INSEAD Business School Research Paper No. 2007/57/FIN/ACGRD
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 18 Oct 2007
Last Revised: 12 Oct 2010
Downloads
206
Downloads
327
42.
Crisis Resolution and Bank Liquidity
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 11 Nov 2010
Working Paper Series
New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB)
There are 5 versions of this paper
Crisis Resolution and Bank Liquidity
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 11 Nov 2010
Downloads
320
Crisis Resolution and Bank Liquidity
Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 22 Jan 2010
Downloads
313
Crisis Resolution and Bank Liquidity
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 08 May 2007
Last Revised: 11 Nov 2010
Downloads
181
Crisis Resolution and Bank Liquidity
NYU Working Paper No. 2451/29540
Number of pages: 66
Posted: 09 Mar 2009
Last Revised: 10 Sep 2013
Downloads
118
Crisis Resolution and Bank Liquidity
NBER Working Paper No. w15567
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 08 Dec 2009
Last Revised: 16 Jul 2010
Downloads
57
Downloads
320
43.
Voluntary Disclosures and the Exercise of CEO Stock Options
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 20 Jun 2009
Working Paper Series
Lehigh University - College of Business, Washington University in Saint Louis - Olin School of Business and University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Downloads
319
44.
Shareholders' Say on Pay: Does it Create Value?
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 28 Jul 2011
Working Paper Series
Drexel University and Drexel University - Lebow College of Business
There are 3 versions of this paper
Shareholders' Say on Pay: Does it Create Value?
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming, Drexel College of Business Research Paper No. 2008-06
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 20 Nov 2007
Last Revised: 12 Nov 2009
Downloads
2,298
Shareholders' Say on Pay: Does it Create Value?
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (JFQA), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 16 Feb 2009
Last Revised: 12 Nov 2009
Downloads
437
Shareholders' Say on Pay: Does it Create Value?
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 28 Jul 2011
Downloads
277
Downloads
277
45.
The Role of Options in Long Horizon Portfolio Choice
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
Fordham University - Gabelli School of Business
Downloads
173
46.
Does Favorable Investor Sentiment Lead to Costly Decisions to Go Public?
Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Posted: 25 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 17 Apr 2015
Accepted Paper Series
City University of Hong Kong and University of Oregon - Department of Finance
47.
Are ETFs Replacing Index Mutual Funds?
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 24 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 17 Nov 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance and Bates White, LLC
Downloads
3,106
48.
Do Non-Financial Stakeholders Affect the Pricing of Risky Debt? Evidence from Unionized Workers
Review of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 24 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 28 Sep 2010
Working Paper Series
Fudan University - Fanhai International School of Finance (FISF), Imperial College London - Accounting, Finance, and Macroeconomics and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
Downloads
1,193
49.
Does Credit Competition Affect Small-Firm Finance?
Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 24 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 28 Jul 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and Boston College - Department of Finance
Downloads
571
50.
CEO Deal-Making Activities and Compensation
AFA 2009 San Francisco Meetings Paper, Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 24 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 24 Dec 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Drexel University - Department of Finance, University of Texas at Austin - Department of Finance and University of Missouri at Columbia - Department of Finance
Downloads
551
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