William F. Maxwell

Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department

Professor

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

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Scholarly Papers (21)

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Citation 248

Corporate Governance and Firm Cash Holdings

AFA 2006 Boston Meetings Paper
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 24 Oct 2005
Jarrad Harford, Sattar Mansi and William F. Maxwell
University of Washington, Virginia Tech and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Citation 248

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Cash Holdings, Corporate Governance, Shareholder Rights

Corporate Governance and Firm Cash Holdings

Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming, AFA 2006 Boston Meetings Paper
Posted: 22 May 2007
Jarrad Harford, Sattar Mansi and William F. Maxwell
University of Washington, Virginia Tech and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department

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Cash Holdings, Corporate Governance, Shareholder Rights

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Citation 158

Measuring Abnormal Bond Performance

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 19 Jan 2005 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2008
W.P. Carey School of Business, University of Arizona - Department of Finance, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Gonzaga University
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Citation 158

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event study, bond returns, TRACE

Measuring Abnormal Bond Performance

The Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 22, Issue 10, pp. 4219-4258, 2009
Posted: 28 Sep 2009
W.P. Carey School of Business, University of Arizona - Department of Finance, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Gonzaga University

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G12, G14

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Citation 92

Does Corporate Governance Matter to Bondholders?

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 09 Apr 2004
Mark Klock, Sattar Mansi and William F. Maxwell
Independent, Virginia Tech and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Citation 92

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agency cost, antitakeover provisions, corporate governance, debt, takeover defenses

Does Corporate Governance Matter to Bondholders?

Posted: 14 Sep 2004
Mark Klock, Sattar Mansi and William F. Maxwell
Independent, Virginia Tech and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department

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Agency cost, antitakeover provisions, corporate governance, debt, takeover defenses

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Capital Commitment and Illiquidity in Corporate Bonds

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 22 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 29 Aug 2017
W.P. Carey School of Business, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Citation 187

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Capital commitment, corporate bonds, dealer behavior, Dodd-Frank Act, financial crisis, liquidity, microstructure, transparency, TRACE, transaction costs

Does Auditor Quality and Tenure Matter to Investors? Evidence from the Bond Market

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 31 Mar 2003
Sattar Mansi, William F. Maxwell and Darius P. Miller
Virginia Tech, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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information asymmetry, bond market, audit quality, auditor tenure, mandatory rotation, insurance

Does Auditor Quality and Tenure Matter to Investors? Evidence from the Bond Market

Posted: 16 Mar 2004
Sattar Mansi, William F. Maxwell and Darius P. Miller
Virginia Tech, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department

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asymmetry, bond market, audit quality, auditor tenure, mandatory rotation, insurance

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Citation 36

Analyst Forecast Characteristics and the Cost of Debt

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 19 Apr 2005 Last Revised: 25 Oct 2009
Sattar Mansi, William F. Maxwell and Darius P. Miller
Virginia Tech, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Citation 36

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Analyst, Information asymmetry, information risk, cost of capital, debt markets, bond markets

Analyst Forecast Characteristics and the Cost of Debt

Review of Accounting Studies, Forthcoming
Posted: 07 Jan 2010
Sattar Mansi, William F. Maxwell and Darius P. Miller
Virginia Tech, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department

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Analyst forecasts, information, disclosure, cost of debt

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Refinancing Risk and Cash Holdings

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 18 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 31 May 2013
Jarrad Harford, Sandy Klasa and William F. Maxwell
University of Washington, University of Arizona - Department of Finance and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Citation 140

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Cash Holdings, Refinancing Risk, Debt Maturity

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Transparency and the Corporate Bond Market

Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2008
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Jan 2008
William F. Maxwell and Hendrik Bessembinder
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and W.P. Carey School of Business
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corporate bonds, transparency, TRACE

Market Transparency, Liquidity Externalities, and Institutional Trading Costs in Corporate Bonds

AFA 2006 Boston Meetings, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 08 Jan 2005
Hendrik Bessembinder, William F. Maxwell and Kumar Venkataraman
W.P. Carey School of Business, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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transparency, corporate bonds, trace, microstructure,

Market Transparency, Liquidity Externalities, and Institutional Trading Costs in Corporate Bonds

Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Posted: 02 Nov 2005
Hendrik Bessembinder, William F. Maxwell and Kumar Venkataraman
W.P. Carey School of Business, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department

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Bonds, microstructure, transparency, liquidity externalities

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The Influence of Product Market Dynamics on the Firm's Cash Holdings and Hedging Behavior

Journal of Financial Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 10 Mar 2005
David Haushalter, Sandy Klasa and William F. Maxwell
Pennsylvania State University - Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal College of Business Administration, University of Arizona - Department of Finance and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Citation 14

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Cash holdings, hedging, financing constraints, risk management, intra-industry equilibrium

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Creditor Protection Laws and the Cost of Debt

1st Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies Paper, Journal of Law and Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 22 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2009
Sattar Mansi, William F. Maxwell and John K. Wald
Virginia Tech, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and University of Texas at San Antonio
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state payout restrictions, antitakeover provisions, agency cost, corporate governance

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The Strategic Use of Corporate Cash Holdings in Collective Bargaining with Labor Unions

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 27 Apr 2007 Last Revised: 28 May 2009
Sandy Klasa, William F. Maxwell and Hernan Ortiz-Molina
University of Arizona - Department of Finance, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and University of British Columbia (UBC) - Sauder School of Business
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Citation 40

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Cash holdings, liquidity policy, hedging, labor unions

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Trading Activity and Transaction Costs in Structured Credit Products

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 69, No. 6, 2013
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 26 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 22 Feb 2014
Hendrik Bessembinder, William F. Maxwell and Kumar Venkataraman
W.P. Carey School of Business, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Citation 12

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ABS, MBS, Structured Products, Transparency, mortgage-backed, asset-backed

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On Economies of Scale and Persistent Performance in Corporate-Bond Mutual Funds

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 19 May 2008 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2009
Roberto C. Gutierrez, William F. Maxwell and Danielle Xu
University of Oregon, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Gonzaga University
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mutual funds, corporate bonds, bonds, persistence

A Reexamination of the Tradeoff Between the Future Benefit and Riskiness of R&D Increases

Journal of Accounting Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 10 Aug 2007
Allan Eberhart, William F. Maxwell and Akhtar R. Siddique
Georgetown University, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
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R&D Benefits and Detriments, Bonds, Agency Conflicts, Option Pricing

A Reexamination of the Tradeoff between the Future Benefit and Riskiness of R&D Increases

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 28 Jun 2007
Allan Eberhart, William F. Maxwell and Akhtar R. Siddique
Georgetown University, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)
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R&D Benefits and Detriments, Bonds, Agency Conflicts, Option Pricing

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Overallocation and Secondary Market Outcomes in Corporate Bond Offerings

SMU Cox School of Business Research Paper No. 20-04
Number of pages: 66 Posted: 13 Aug 2020 Last Revised: 02 May 2022
W.P. Carey School of Business, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department
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Underwriting Syndicate; Primary Allocation; Overallocation; Price Stabilization; Corporate Bonds; UnderPricing; Liquidity

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Bankruptcy Prediction Models and the Cost of Debt

Journal of Fixed Income, Forthcoming, https://doi.org/10.3905/jfi.2012.21.4.025, SMU Cox School of Business Research Paper No. 19-8
Posted: 21 May 2019 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2019
Sattar Mansi, William F. Maxwell and Andrew (Jianzhong) Zhang
Virginia Tech, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and University of Nevada, Las Vegas - Department of Finance

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Bankruptcy prediction models, cost of debt financing, distress risk

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Does the Stock Market Underreact to R&D Increases?

Journal of Investment Management, Vol. 4, No. 1, First Quarter 2006
Posted: 22 Apr 2006
Allan Eberhart, William F. Maxwell and Akhtar R. Siddique
Georgetown University, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)

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R&D, market efficiency, operating performance

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An Examination of Long-Term Abnormal Stock Returns and Operating Performance Following R&D Increases

Posted: 01 Aug 2004
Allan Eberhart, William F. Maxwell and Akhtar R. Siddique
Georgetown University, Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Government of the United States of America - Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)

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R&D, market efficiency

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Do Spin-Offs Expropriate Wealth from Bondholders?

Posted: 21 Oct 2003
William F. Maxwell and Ramesh P. Rao
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Oklahoma State University - Stillwater - Spears School of Business - Department of Finance

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The Wealth Effects of Repurchases on Bondholders

Posted: 03 Sep 2003
William F. Maxwell and Clifford P. Stephens
Southern Methodist University (SMU) - Finance Department and Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge - E.J. Ourso College of Business Administration

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