Gustavo Grullon

Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

Professor of Finance

P.O. Box 2932

Houston, TX 77252-2932

United States

http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~grullon/

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1.

Are U.S. Industries Becoming More Concentrated?

Forthcoming, Review of Finance, Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 19-41
Number of pages: 82 Posted: 31 May 2015 Last Revised: 11 Sep 2019
Gustavo Grullon, Yelena Larkin and Roni Michaely
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, York University - Schulich School of Business and The University of Hong Kong
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industry concentration; HHI; product markets; profit margins; publicly-traded firms; M&A; antitrust

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Dividends, Share Repurchases, and the Substitution Hypothesis

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Dividends, Share Repurchases, and the Substitution Hypothesis

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 26 Apr 2000
Gustavo Grullon and Roni Michaely
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and The University of Hong Kong
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Dividends, Share Repurchases, and the Substitution Hypothesis

Posted: 29 Dec 2003
Gustavo Grullon and Roni Michaely
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and The University of Hong Kong

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Dividend Changes Do Not Signal Changes in Future Profitability

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 08 Oct 2003
Gustavo Grullon, Roni Michaely, Shlomo Benartzi and Richard H. Thaler
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, The University of Hong Kong, University of California at Los Angeles and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business
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Dividend Policy and Product Market Competition

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 20 Mar 2007 Last Revised: 09 Mar 2019
Gustavo Grullon, Yelena Larkin and Roni Michaely
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, York University - Schulich School of Business and The University of Hong Kong
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Payout Policy, Dividends, Share Repurchases, Product Market Competition

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The Information Content of Share Repurchase Programs

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 30 Mar 2000
Gustavo Grullon and Roni Michaely
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and The University of Hong Kong
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Religion and Corporate (Mis)Behavior

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 12 Sep 2009 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2010
Gustavo Grullon, George Kanatas and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Real Options, Volatility, and Stock Returns

Journal of Finance, Vol. 67, pp. 1499-1536, 2012
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 08 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 25 Mar 2013
Gustavo Grullon, Evgeny Lyandres and Alexei Zhdanov
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Tel Aviv University and Pennsylvania State University
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Volatility, Risk, Stock Returns, Real Options

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Stock Market Liquidity and the Cost of Raising Capital

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 16 Dec 2002
James Weston, Gustavo Grullon and Alexander W. Butler
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Liquidity, Cost of capital, investment banking

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The Real Effects of Short-Selling Constraints

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 16 Nov 2011 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2014
Gustavo Grullon, Sebastien Michenaud and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Kellstadt Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Corporate Investment, Financing Decisions, Short-selling Constraints, Financial Constraints, Bear raids,

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The Effects of Short-Selling Threats on Incentive Contracts: Evidence from an Experiment

Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 24 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 18 Oct 2016
David De Angelis, Gustavo Grullon and Sebastien Michenaud
University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Kellstadt Graduate School of Business
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Executive Compensation, Short-Selling Constraints,Risk-Taking Incentives, Left-Tail Risk, Stock Price Informativeness

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When Low Beats High: Riding the Sales Seasonality Premium

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 21 May 2018 Last Revised: 27 May 2018
Gustavo Grullon, Yamil Kaba and Alexander Nuñez-Torres
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and CUNY Lehman College
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Sales Seasonality, Stock Returns, Investor Attention

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Advertising, Breadth of Ownership, and Liquidity

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Mar 2002
Gustavo Grullon, George Kanatas and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Financing Decisions and Advertising: An Empirical Study of Capital Structure and Product Market Competition

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 18 Jun 2002
Gustavo Grullon, George Kanatas and Piyush Kumar
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Vanderbilt University - Owen Graduate School of Management
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Product Market Competition and Internal Governance: Evidence from the Sarbanes Oxley Act

AFA 2013 San Diego Meetings Paper, Forthcoming, Management Science, Johnson School Research Paper Series No. 18-2012
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 20 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2015
Vidhi Chhaochharia, Yaniv Grinstein, Yaniv Grinstein, Gustavo Grullon and Roni Michaely
University of Miami - Department of Finance, Reichman University - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) HerzliyahCornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and The University of Hong Kong
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Corporate Governance, Product Market Competition, Sarbanes Oxley

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Does Stock Market Liquidity Matter? Evidence from Seasoned Equity Offerings

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 29 Nov 2003
Alexander W. Butler, Gustavo Grullon and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Firm Age and Fluctuations in Idiosyncratic Risk

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 16 Mar 2006
Jason Fink, Gustavo Grullon, Kristin Fink and James Weston
James Madison University - College of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, James Madison University - College of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Idiosyncratic Risk

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IPO Vintage and the Rise of Idiosyncratic Risk

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 04 Feb 2005
Jason Fink, Gustavo Grullon, Kristin Fink and James Weston
James Madison University - College of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, James Madison University - College of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Can Managers Forecast Aggregate Market Returns?

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 26 May 2003
Alexander W. Butler, Gustavo Grullon and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Corporate Financing Decisions, Managerial Market Timing, and Real Investment

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 101, No. 3, 2011
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 30 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 23 Sep 2014
Alexander W. Butler, Jess Cornaggia, Gustavo Grullon and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Pennsylvania State University - Department of Finance, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Market Timing, Financing Decisions, Investment Policy

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Closed-End Fund Discounts with Informed Ownership Differential

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Closed-End Fund Discounts with Informed Ownership Differential

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 29 Mar 2000
Gustavo Grullon and F. Albert Wang
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and University of Dayton - School of Business Administration - Department of Economics and Finance
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Closed-End Fund Discounts with Informed Ownership Differential

Posted: 23 May 2001
Gustavo Grullon and F. Albert Wang
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and University of Dayton - School of Business Administration - Department of Economics and Finance

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Closed-end fund discount, asymmetric information, informed ownership, anomaly, asset pricing

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Can Managers Successfully Time the Maturity Structure of Their Debt Issues?

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Can Managers Successfully Time the Maturity Structure of Their Debt Issues?

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Jul 2004
Alexander W. Butler, Gustavo Grullon and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Debt maturity, market timing, market efficiency, behavioral finance

Can Managers Successfully Time the Maturity Structure of their Debt Issues?

Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Posted: 23 Mar 2006
Gustavo Grullon, Alexander W. Butler and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business

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Debt maturity, market timing, market efficiency, behavioral finance

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A Note on Nonsense Predictive Regressions Arising from Structural Breaks

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 03 Aug 2006
Alexander W. Butler, Gustavo Grullon and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Market Timing, Spurious Regressions

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Has the Propensity to Pay Out Declined?

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 02 Sep 2007
Gustavo Grullon, Bradley S. Paye, Shane Underwood and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Virginia Tech - Department of Finance, Insurance, and Business Law, Baylor University and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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dividends, share repurchases, net payouts

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Excess Capacity, Marginal q and Corporate Investment

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 22 Jul 2020 Last Revised: 01 Sep 2021
Gustavo Grullon and David L. Ikenberry
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Leeds School of Business, University of Colorado Boulder
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Corporate Investment, Tobin’s q, Marginal q, Asset Utilization, Capacity Utilization, Excess Capacity

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Comovement and Investment Banking Networks

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 113, No. 1, 2014
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 05 Aug 2010 Last Revised: 04 Jul 2014
Gustavo Grullon, Shane Underwood and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Baylor University and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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comovement, investment banking

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Equity Issues and Returns: Managerial Timing, Reaction, or Both?

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 11 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2009
Alexander W. Butler, Jess Cornaggia, Gustavo Grullon and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Pennsylvania State University - Department of Finance, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Concentrating on Q and Cash Flow

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 03 Feb 2017
Gustavo Grullon, John Hund and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Georgia and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Aggregate Investment, Q-Theory, Cashflow, Accelerator

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A Granular Analysis of Corporate Investment

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 03 Aug 2013
Gustavo Grullon, John Hund and James Weston
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, University of Georgia and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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aggregate investment, financial constraints, investment concentration, q-theory

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The Worst of Both Worlds: Megamergers are Anticompetitive and Inefficient

SMU Cox School of Business Research Paper No. 19-9
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 15 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 04 Sep 2019
Alexander W. Butler, Gustavo Grullon and Gabriele Lattanzio
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and The University of Melbourne, Faculty of Business and Economics, Department of Economics
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Mergers and Acquistions; Megamergers; Merger Gains

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Does Non-Proportional Thinking Affect Financial Markets?

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 22 Jun 2023 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2023
Gustavo Grullon, Yamil Kaba and Alexander Nuñez-Torres
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business and CUNY Lehman College
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Non-Proportional Thinking, Volatility, Stock Splits, Trading Volume

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Identifying the Real Effects of the M&A Market on Target Firms

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 22 Apr 2023 Last Revised: 06 Jun 2023
Elizabeth Berger, David De Angelis and Gustavo Grullon
University of Houston, University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business and Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business
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Mergers and Acquisitions, Asset Growth, Target Firms, Hart-Scott-Rodino Act

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Product Market Competition and Agency Conflicts: Evidence from the Sarbanes Oxley Act

Posted: 19 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 23 Jun 2023
Vidhi Chhaochharia, Gustavo Grullon, Yaniv Grinstein, Yaniv Grinstein and Roni Michaely
University of Miami - Department of Finance, Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Reichman University - Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) HerzliyahCornell University - Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management and The University of Hong Kong

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Are Dividend Changes a Sign of Firm Maturity?

Posted: 22 Jul 2003
Gustavo Grullon, Roni Michaely and Bhaskaran Swaminathan
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, The University of Hong Kong and LSV Asset Management

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Research Insights and the Halliburton-Baker Hughes Merger

“RESEARCH INSIGHTS AND THE Halliburton-Baker Hughes Merger,” Yvonne Taylor, Gustavo Grullon and Vikas Mittal, Jones Journal, Spring, 2015, 30-33.
Number of pages: 4 Posted: 29 Apr 2015
Gustavo Grullon, Vikas Mittal and M. Yvonne Taylor
Rice University - Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University and University of Texas at Austin
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