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Volume 46: Issue 2 (June 1991)


Foundations of Portfolio Theory

Pages: 469-477  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02669.x  |  Cited by: 504

HARRY M. MARKOWITZ


Leverage

Pages: 479-488  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02670.x  |  Cited by: 50

MERTON H. MILLER


Capital Asset Prices with and without Negative Holdings

Pages: 489-509  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02671.x  |  Cited by: 110

WILLIAM F. SHARPE


Using Generalized Method of Moments to Test Mean‐Variance Efficiency

Pages: 511-527  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02672.x  |  Cited by: 158

A. CRAIG MACKINLAY, MATTHEW P. RICHARDSON


Financial Investment Opportunities and the Macroeconomy

Pages: 529-554  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02673.x  |  Cited by: 388

NAI‐FU CHEN

This paper studies the relation between changes in financial investment opportunities and changes in the macroeconomy. States variables such as the lagged production growth rate, the default premium, the term premium, the short‐term interest rate and the market dividend‐price ratio are shown to be indicators of recent and future economic growth. Further, the market excess return is negatively correlated with recent economic growth and positively correlated with expected future economic growth. These results offer straightforward interpretations of recent evidence on the forecasts of the market excess return by state variable via their forecasts on the macroeconomy.


The Term Structure as a Predictor of Real Economic Activity

Pages: 555-576  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02674.x  |  Cited by: 858

ARTURO ESTRELLA, GIKAS A. HARDOUVELIS

A positive slope of the yield curve is associated with a future increase in real economic activity: consumption (nondurables plus services), consumer durables, and investment. It has extra predictive power over the index of leading indicators, real short‐term interest rates, lagged growth in economic activity, and lagged rates of inflation. It outperforms survey forecasts, both in‐sample and out‐of‐sample. Historically, the information in the slope reflected, inter alia, factors that were independent of monetary policy, and thus the slope could have provided useful information both to private investors and to policy makers.


An Exact Solution to a Dynamic Portfolio Choice Problem under Transactions Costs

Pages: 577-595  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02675.x  |  Cited by: 259

BERNARD DUMAS, ELISA LUCIANO


The Default Risk of Swaps

Pages: 597-620  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02676.x  |  Cited by: 80

IAN A. COOPER, ANTONIO S. MELLO


The Price Elasticity of Demand for Common Stock

Pages: 621-651  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02677.x  |  Cited by: 68

CLAUDIO LODERER, JOHN W. COONEY, LEONARD D. VAN DRUNEN


The Mode of Acquisition in Takeovers: Taxes and Asymmetric Information

Pages: 653-669  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02678.x  |  Cited by: 118

DAVID T. BROWN, MICHAEL D. RYNGAERT

We develop a model in which the mode of acquisition conveys information concerning the value of the bidder. The model incorporates the possibility that offers containing both cash and stock can be made in a setting consistent with the U.S. tax code. We demonstrate that bidders with unfavorable private information about their equity value choose offers containing some stock to avoid the capital gains tax consequences of cash offers. The model yields a number of unique predictions about the construction of acquisition offers. We present evidence consistent with the model.


Corporate Performance, Corporate Takeovers, and Management Turnover

Pages: 671-687  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02679.x  |  Cited by: 243

KENNETH J. MARTIN, JOHN J. MCCONNELL


Event Risk: An Analysis of Losses to Bondholders and “Super Poison Put” Bond Covenants

Pages: 689-706  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02680.x  |  Cited by: 7

LELAND CRABBE


The Effects of Stock Repurchases on Rival Firms

Pages: 707-716  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02681.x  |  Cited by: 41

MICHAEL G. HERTZEL


Animal Spirits, Margin Requirements, and Stock Price Volatility

Pages: 717-731  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02682.x  |  Cited by: 29

PAUL H. KUPIEC, STEVEN A. SHARPE


Inferring Trade Direction from Intraday Data

Pages: 733-746  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02683.x  |  Cited by: 1499

CHARLES M. C. LEE, MARK J. READY

This paper evaluates alternative methods for classifying individual trades as market buy or market sell orders using intraday trade and quote data. We document two potential problems with quote‐based methods of trade classification: quotes may be recorded ahead of trades that triggered them, and trades inside the spread are not readily classifiable. These problems are analyzed in the context of the interaction between exchange floor agents. We then propose and test relatively simple procedures for improving trade classifications.


The Reversal of Large Stock‐Price Decreases

Pages: 747-754  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02684.x  |  Cited by: 155

MARC BREMER, RICHARD J. SWEENEY

Extremely large negative 10‐day rates of return are followed on average by larger‐than‐expected positive rates of return over following days. This price adjustment lasts approximately 2 days and is observed in a sample of firms that is largely devoid of methodological problems that might explain the reversal phenomenon. While perhaps not representing abnormal profit opportunities, these reversals present a puzzle as to the length of the price adjustment period. Such a slow recovery is inconsistent with the notion that market prices quickly reflect relevant information.


An Examination of Ex‐Dividend Day Stock Price Movements: The Case of Nontaxable Master Limited Partnership Distributions

Pages: 755-771  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02685.x  |  Cited by: 18

WAYNE H. SHAW


A Variance‐Ratio Test of Random Walks in Foreign Exchange Rates

Pages: 773-785  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02686.x  |  Cited by: 114

CHRISTINA Y. LIU, JIA HE

The separate variance‐ratio tests under homoscedasticity and heteroscedasticity both provide evidence rejecting the random walk hypothesis, using five pairs of weekly nominal exchange rate series over the period from August 7, 1974 to March 29, 1989. The rejections cast doubt on the random walk hypothesis in exchange rates, which has received support in the existing literature. Furthermore, since the rejections are robust to heteroscedasticity, they suggest autocorelations of weekly increments in the nominal exchange rate series, which may be consistent with the exchange rate overshooting or undershooting phenomenon.


Book Reviews

Pages: 787-799  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02687.x  |  Cited by: 0


MISCELLANEA

Pages: 801-802  |  Published: 6/1991  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb02688.x  |  Cited by: 0