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Fellow of the American Finance Association for 2008
Published: 9/10/2008, Volume: 63, Issue: 5 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2008.01388.x | Cited by: 0
John C. Cox
VALUING CORPORATE SECURITIES: SOME EFFECTS OF BOND INDENTURE PROVISIONS
Published: 5/1976, Volume: 31, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1976.tb01891.x | Cited by: 1806
Fischer Black, John C. Cox
A SURVEY OF SOME NEW RESULTS IN FINANCIAL OPTION PRICING THEORY
Published: 5/1976, Volume: 31, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1976.tb01893.x | Cited by: 100
John C. Cox, Stephen A. Ross
An Analysis of Variable Rate Loan Contracts
Published: 5/1980, Volume: 35, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1980.tb02169.x | Cited by: 183
JOHN C. COX, JONATHAN E. INGERSOLL, STEPHEN A. ROSS
A Re‐examination of Traditional Hypotheses about the Term Structure of Interest Rates
Published: 9/1981, Volume: 36, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1981.tb04884.x | Cited by: 232
JOHN C. COX, JONATHAN E. INGERSOLL, STEPHEN A. ROSS
The term structure of interest rates is an important subject to economists, and has a long history of traditions. This paper re‐examines many of these traditional hypotheses while employing recent advances in the theory of valuation and contingent claims. We show how the Expectations Hypothesis and the Preferred Habitat Theory must be reformulated if they are to obtain in a continuous‐time, rational‐expectations equilibrium. We also modify the linear adaptive interest rate forecasting models, which are common to the macroeconomic literature, so that they will be consistent in the same framework.
TRENDS IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF STOCK OWNERSHIP*
Published: 12/1960, Volume: 15, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1960.tb02771.x | Cited by: 0
Edwin Burk Cox
INTEREST ON DEPOSITS OF COMMERCIAL BANKS IN THE UNITED STATES: A STUDY IN FINANCIAL REGULATION*
Published: 12/1965, Volume: 20, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1965.tb02941.x | Cited by: 0
Albert H. Cox
REGULATION OF INTEREST ON DEPOSITS: AN HISTORICAL REVIEW
Published: 5/1967, Volume: 22, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1967.tb00013.x | Cited by: 12
Albert H. Cox
Stock Returns following Large One‐Day Declines: Evidence on Short‐Term Reversals and Longer‐Term Performance
Published: 3/1994, Volume: 49, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1994.tb04428.x | Cited by: 149
DON R. COX, DAVID R. PETERSON
We examine stock returns following large one‐day price declines and find that the bid‐ask bounce and the degree of market liquidity explain short‐term price reversals. Further, we do not find evidence consistent with the overreaction hypothesis. We observe that securities with large one‐day price declines perform poorly over an extended time horizon.
OPEN MARKET OPERATIONS AND RESERVE SETTLEMENT PERIODS: A PROPOSED EXPERIMENT*
Published: 9/1964, Volume: 19, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1964.tb02871.x | Cited by: 0
Albert H. Cox, Ralph F. Leach
DEFENSIVE OPEN MARKET OPERATIONS AND THE RESERVE SETTLEMENT PERIODS OF MEMBER BANKS*
Published: 3/1964, Volume: 19, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1964.tb00746.x | Cited by: 1
Albert H. Cox, Ralph F. Leach
Patterns of Productivity in the Finance Literature: A Study of the Bibliometric Distributions
Published: 3/1990, Volume: 45, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1990.tb05095.x | Cited by: 106
KEE H. CHUNG, RAYMOND A. K. COX
This study finds a bibliometric regularity in the finance literature that the number of authors publishing n papers is about of those publishing one paper. We find that the finance literature conforms very well to the inverse square law if data are taken from a large collection of journals. When applied to individual finance journals, we find that values of c range from 1.95 to 3.26. We also find that top‐rated journals have higher concentrations among their contributors. This implies that the phenomenon “success breeds success” is more common in higher quality publications.
Theory and Behavior of Multiple Unit Discriminative Auctions
Published: 9/1984, Volume: 39, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1984.tb03888.x | Cited by: 44
JAMES C. COX, VERNON L. SMITH, JAMES M. WALKER
This paper reports the results of controlled experiments designed to test the Harris‐Raviv generalization of the Vickrey theory of bidding in multiple unit discriminative auctions. The paper also discusses further development of the theory—in a way suggested by the experimental results—to include bidders with distinct risk preferences.
DISCUSSION
Published: 5/1952, Volume: 7, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1952.tb00252.x | Cited by: 0
Reavis Cox, Avram Kisselgoff, Wallace P. Mors, Thomas W. Rogers
What Moves the Stock and Bond Markets? A Variance Decomposition for Long‐Term Asset Returns
Published: 3/1993, Volume: 48, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1993.tb04700.x | Cited by: 372
JOHN Y. CAMPBELL, JOHN AMMER
This paper uses a vector autoregressive model to decompose excess stock and 10‐year bond returns into changes in expectations of future stock dividends, inflation, short‐term real interest rates, and excess stock and bond returns. In monthly postwar U.S. data, stock and bond returns are driven largely by news about future excess stock returns and inflation, respectively. Real interest rates have little impact on returns, although they do affect the short‐term nominal interest rate and the slope of the term structure. These findings help to explain the low correlation between excess stock and bond returns.
Top‐Management Compensation and Capital Structure
Published: 7/1993, Volume: 48, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1993.tb04026.x | Cited by: 407
TERESA A. JOHN, KOSE JOHN
The interrelationship between top‐management compensation and the design and mix of external claims issued by a firm is studied. The optimal managerial compensation structures depend on not only the agency relationship between shareholders and management, but also the conflicts of interests which arise in the other contracting relationships for which the firm serves as a nexus. We analyze in detail the optimal management compensation for the cases when the external claims are (1) equity and risky debt, and (2) equity and convertible debt. In addition to the role of aligning managerial incentives with shareholder interests, managerial compensation in a
levered
firm also serves as a precommitment device to minimize the agency costs of debt. The optimal management compensation derived has
low
pay‐performance sensitivity. With convertible debt, instead of straight debt, the corresponding optimal managerial compensation has high pay‐to‐performance sensitivity. A
negative
relationship between pay‐performance sensitivity and leverage is derived. Our results provide a reconciliation of the puzzling evidence of Jensen and Murphy (
1990
) with agency theory. Other testable implications include (1) a relationship between the risk premium in corporate bond yields and top‐management compensation structures, and (2) the announcement effect of adoption of executive stock option plans on bond prices. The model yields implications for management compensation in banks and Federal Deposit Insurance reform. Our results explain the dynamics of top‐management compensation in firms going through financial distress and reorganization.
Evaluating and Comparing Projects: Simple Detection of False Alarms
Published: 12/1979, Volume: 34, Issue: 5 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1979.tb00068.x | Cited by: 11
JOHN W. PRATT, JOHN S. HAMMOND
Asset Writedowns: Managerial Incentives and Security Returns
Published: 7/1987, Volume: 42, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1987.tb04574.x | Cited by: 240
JOHN S. STRONG, JOHN R. MEYER
Explaining the Poor Performance of Consumption‐based Asset Pricing Models
Published: 12/2000, Volume: 55, Issue: 6 | DOI: 10.1111/0022-1082.00310 | Cited by: 203
John Y. Campbell, John H. Cochrane
We show that the external habit‐formation model economy of Campbell and Cochrane (1999) can explain why the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) and its extensions are betterapproximate asset pricing models than is the standard onsumption‐based model. The model economy produces time‐varying expected eturns, tracked by the dividend–price ratio. Portfolio‐based models capture some of this variation in state variables, which a state‐independent function of consumption cannot capture. Therefore, though the consumption‐based model and CAPM are both perfect conditional asset pricing models, the portfolio‐based models are better approximate unconditional asset pricing models.
DISCUSSION
Published: 5/1972, Volume: 27, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1972.tb00972.x | Cited by: 1
John Lintner
THE COUPON EFFECT ON YIELD TO MATURITY
Published: 3/1977, Volume: 32, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1977.tb03245.x | Cited by: 23
John Caks
DISCUSSION
Published: 5/1981, Volume: 36, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1981.tb00443.x | Cited by: 0
JOHN LINTNER
WEALTH, WELFARE, AND THE PRICE OF RISK
Published: 5/1972, Volume: 27, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1972.tb00970.x | Cited by: 12
John Long
Risk Adjusted Equity Performance Measurement
Published: 5/1982, Volume: 37, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1982.tb03576.x | Cited by: 1
JOHN NAGORNIAK
The Case for Intervening in Bankers’ Pay
Published: 5/21/2012, Volume: 67, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2012.01736.x | Cited by: 116
JOHN THANASSOULIS
This paper studies the default risk of banks generated by investment and remuneration pressures. Competing banks prefer to pay their banking staff in bonuses and not in fixed wages as risk sharing on the remuneration bill is valuable. Competition for bankers generates a negative externality, driving up market levels of banker remuneration and hence rival banks’ default risk. Optimal financial regulation involves an appropriately structured limit on the proportion of the balance sheet used for bonuses. However, stringent bonus caps are value destroying, default risk enhancing, and suboptimal for regulators who control only a small number of banks.
BANK RESERVE REQUIREMENTS AND HOW THEIR EFFECTIVENESS AS AN INSTRUMENT OF MONETARY CONTROL MAY BE ENHANCED*
Published: 3/1956, Volume: 11, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1956.tb00690.x | Cited by: 0
John Livingston
A NOTE ON THE GIRO TRANSFER SYSTEM
Published: 12/1959, Volume: 14, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1959.tb00145.x | Cited by: 6
John Hein
Competition and Misconduct
Published: 4/12/2023, Volume: 78, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/jofi.13227 | Cited by: 18
JOHN THANASSOULIS
Misconduct is widespread. Practices such as misselling, pump and dump, and money laundering cause harm while raising profits. This paper presents a mechanism that can determine what sorts of misconduct can be sustained in competitive equilibrium in concentrated markets, oligopoly settings, and markets with many small competing firms. The model studied allows general demand and distinguishes types of ethical dilemma using current psychological understanding. The paper shows, for example, that markets with many small competing firms are not vulnerable to misconduct if firms respond to entry with niche strategies or if the ethical dilemma draws an emotional response.
INFLATION AND SECURITY RETURNS*
Published: 5/1975, Volume: 30, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1975.tb01809.x | Cited by: 64
John Lintner
THE COST OF CAPITAL AND OPTIMAL FINANCING OF CORPORATE GROWTH
Published: 5/1963, Volume: 18, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1963.tb00725.x | Cited by: 35
John Lintner
Risk‐Shifting Incentives and Signalling Through Corporate Capital Structure
Published: 7/1987, Volume: 42, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1987.tb04573.x | Cited by: 33
KOSE JOHN
This paper examines optimal corporate financing arrangements under asymmetric information for different patterns of temporal resolution of uncertainty in the underlying technology. An agency problem, a signalling problem and an agency‐signalling problem arise as special cases. The associated informational equilibria and the optimal financing arrangements are characterized and compared. In the agency‐signalling equilibrium the private information of corporate insiders at the time of financing is signalled through capital structure choices which deviate optimally from agency‐cost minimizing financing arrangements, which in turn induce risk‐shifting incentives in the investment policy. In the pure signalling case the equilibrium is characterized by direct contractual precommitments to implement investment policies which are riskier than pareto‐optimal levels. Empirical implications for debt covenants and the announcement effect of investment policies and leverage increasing transactions on existing stock and bond prices are explicitly derived.
Efficient Funds in a Financial Market with Options: a New Irrelevance Proposition
Published: 6/1981, Volume: 36, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1981.tb00653.x | Cited by: 13
KOSE JOHN
Under the same assumptions that Ross used to assert the existence of an efficient fund (on which a spanning set of options can be written) we prove that almost any portfolio is an efficient fund. From a constructive point of view, a randomly chosen vector of portfolio weights yields an efficient fund. When the Ross assumptions are relaxed, a limited notion of efficiency‐maximal efficiency‐is the best attainable. The maximally efficient funds are also everywhere dense in the portfolio space. Some implications are discussed and illustrative examples given.
CORPORATE DEBT DECISIONS: A NEW ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK
Published: 12/1978, Volume: 33, Issue: 5 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1978.tb03421.x | Cited by: 4
John Caks
Nontransferable Interest‐Bearing National Debt
Published: 9/1980, Volume: 35, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1980.tb03518.x | Cited by: 2
JOHN BRYANT
A NOTE ON THE USE OF INDEX CLAUSES ABROAD
Published: 12/1960, Volume: 15, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1960.tb02768.x | Cited by: 0
John Hein
SECURITY PRICES, RISK, AND MAXIMAL GAINS FROM DIVERSIFICATION*
Published: 12/1965, Volume: 20, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1965.tb02930.x | Cited by: 441
John Lintner
TOWARD A THEORY OF WORKING CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
Published: 5/1955, Volume: 10, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1955.tb01259.x | Cited by: 23
John Sagan
MONETARY POLICY AND EXTERNAL SURPLUSES: THE GERMAN EXPERIENCE, 1955–61*
Published: 9/1963, Volume: 18, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1963.tb02855.x | Cited by: 0
John Hein
The Volatility and Price Sensitivities of Managerial Stock Option Portfolios and Corporate Hedging
Published: 4/2002, Volume: 57, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/1540-6261.00442 | Cited by: 340
John D. Knopf, Jouahn Nam, John H. Thornton
We use estimates of the Black—Scholes sensitivity of managers' stock option portfolios to stock return volatility and the sensitivity of managers' stock and stock option portfolios to stock price to test the relationship between managers' risk preferences and hedging activities. We find that as the sensitivity of managers' stock and stock option portfolios to stock price increases, firms tend to hedge more. However, as the sensitivity of managers' stock option portfolios to stock return volatility increases, firms tend to hedge less.
MONETARY POLICY AND THE FORWARD EXCHANGE MARKET
Published: 12/1961, Volume: 16, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1961.tb04236.x | Cited by: 1
John H. Auten
INVESTOR EXPERIENCE IN CORPORATE SECURITIES: A NEW TECHNIQUE FOR MEASUREMENT*
Published: 3/1964, Volume: 19, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1964.tb00744.x | Cited by: 0
John P. Herzog
Signaling and Takeover Deterrence with Stock Repurchases: Dutch Auctions versus Fixed Price Tender Offers
Published: 9/1994, Volume: 49, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1994.tb02458.x | Cited by: 34
JOHN C. PERSONS
This article presents a model of repurchase tender offers in which firms choose between the Dutch auction method and the fixed price method. Dutch auction repurchases are more effective takeover deterrents, while fixed price repurchases are more effective signals of undervaluation. The model yields empirical implications regarding price effects of repurchases, likelihood of takeover, managerial compensation, and cross‐sectional differences in the elasticity of the supply curve for shares.
DISCUSSION
Published: 5/1970, Volume: 25, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1970.tb00508.x | Cited by: 0
John P. Shelton
THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC POSITION OF MEXICO, 1900 TO 1949*
Published: 12/1952, Volume: 7, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1952.tb02490.x | Cited by: 0
John William Simpson
ON BERNOULLI, SHARPE, FINANCIAL RISK AND THE ST. PETERSBURG PARADOX
Published: 6/1976, Volume: 31, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1976.tb01938.x | Cited by: 4
John T. Sennetti
THE AVAILABILITY OF CREDIT AND CORPORATE INVESTMENT*
Published: 6/1970, Volume: 25, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1970.tb00541.x | Cited by: 0
John H. Hand
CONSUMER CREDIT INSURANCE IN NEBRASKA*
Published: 3/1960, Volume: 15, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1960.tb04846.x | Cited by: 1
John B. Minick
Resolving the Puzzling Intertemporal Relation between the Market Risk Premium and Conditional Market Variance: A Two‐Factor Approach
Published: 4/1998, Volume: 53, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/0022-1082.235793 | Cited by: 329
John T. Scruggs
The existing empirical literature fails to agree on the nature of the intertemporal relation between risk and return. This paper attempts to resolve the issue by estimating a conditional two‐factor model motivated by Merton's intertemporal capital asset pricing model. When long‐term government bond returns are included as a second factor, thepartialrelation between the market risk premium and conditional market variance is found to be positive and significant. The paper also helps explain the convoluted empirical relation between the market risk premium, conditional market variance, and the nominal risk‐free rate previously reported in the literature.
WELLESLEY, A CASE HISTORY IN NEW ENGLAND TOWN FINANCE*
Published: 12/1952, Volume: 7, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1952.tb02492.x | Cited by: 0
Alice John Vandermeulen