The Journal of Finance

THE TWO FACES OF BOND REFUNDING: REPLY

Published: 3/1978,  Volume: 33,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1978.tb03415.x  |  Cited by: 1

James S. Ang

THE TWO FACES OF BOND REFUNDING

Published: 6/1975,  Volume: 30,  Issue: 3  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1975.tb01856.x  |  Cited by: 9

James S. Ang

The Leasing Puzzle

Published: 9/1984,  Volume: 39,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1984.tb03892.x  |  Cited by: 145

JAMES ANG, PAMELA P. PETERSON

Prevailing theories in finance and economics suggest that leases and debt are substitutes; an increase in one should led to a compensating decrease in the other. In particular, there are three views on the magnitude of the substitution coefficient. Standard finance theory treats cash flows from lease obligations as equivalent to debt cash flows, thus describing the tradeoff between debt and leases as one‐to‐one. Others are willing to use a tradeoff of leases for debt which is less than, but close to, one. The rationale for a dollar of leases using less of debt capacity than a dollar of debt obligation is based upon the differences in the terms and nature of lease and debt contracts. Finally, there are some who argue that since leased assets may be firm‐specific, the risk of moral hazard may be great, resulting in a tradeoff of greater than one‐to‐one; that is, a dollar of a lease obligation uses more of debt capacity than a dollar of a debt obligation.A series of empirical tests are performed in this study on samples of approximately 600 firms, covering the years 1976 through 1981, with none of the three views supported by the results. Instead, the results indicate that leases and debt are complements; greater use of debt is associated with a greater use of leasing. This finding reappears consistently for each year, each definition of leverage ratios, and each approach to analysis. This complementary relationship persists even after refinements are made to the estimation technique.

Risk A version and Information Structure: An Experimental Study of Price Variability in the Securities Markets

Published: 7/1985,  Volume: 40,  Issue: 3  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1985.tb05008.x  |  Cited by: 5

JAMES S. ANG, THOMAS SCHWARZ

This study investigates the differences in the behaviors between the speculative investors and the conservative investors in two separate experimental markets. Although the market for speculators shows greater price volatility in both bid/ask spread within a trade as well as with intraperiod variances, it exhibits several desirable properties. Specifically, the price patterns tend to converge closer, and at a greater speed to either the prior information equilibrium price or the rational expectation equilibrium price. It also achieves better allocational efficiency. And, it is also less likely to be misled by potentially “false” price information.

Return, Risk, and Yield: Evidence from Ex Ante Data

Published: 6/1985,  Volume: 40,  Issue: 2  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1985.tb04971.x  |  Cited by: 19

JAMES S. ANG, DAVID R. PETERSON

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between return and yield in the context of ex ante data from The Value Line Investment Survey and by examining the role of dividends as a proxy for risk. The use of ex ante data should substantially reduce the confounding of tax and information effects that has affected earlier studies. Heteroscedasticity is detected in the after‐tax CAPM and found to be negatively related to yield and positively related to beta. Maximum likelihood methods are used to correct for heteroscedasticity and generate efficient coefficient estimates. Using data for each of the years 1973 through 1983, there is an overall positive relationship between expected return and yield. However, coefficient estimates of yield are highly variable from year to year.

Marginal Tax Rates: Evidence from Nontaxable Corporate Bonds: A Note

Published: 3/1985,  Volume: 40,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1985.tb04953.x  |  Cited by: 18

JAMES ANG, DAVID PETERSON, PAMELA PETERSON

This study offers an alternative method of calculating marginal personal tax rates through the pairing of nontaxable (industrial development and pollution control) and taxable corporate bonds. This procedure is shown to produce matched bond pairs that are comparable. Two hundred pairs of bonds are examined from the second quarter of 1973 through the second quarter of 1983. Testing of the marginal tax rate relationships indicates that the marginal personal tax rate is less than the corporate statutory tax rate.

Agency Costs and Ownership Structure

Published: 2/2000,  Volume: 55,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/0022-1082.00201  |  Cited by: 1795

James S. Ang, Rebel A. Cole, James Wuh Lin

We provide measures of absolute and relative equity agency costs for corporations under different ownership and management structures. Our base case is Jensen and Meckling's (1976) zero agency‐cost firm, where the manager is the firm's sole shareholder. We utilize a sample of 1,708 small corporations from the FRB/NSSBF database and find that agency costs (i) are significantly higher when an outsider rather than an insider manages the firm; (ii) are inversely related to the manager's ownership share; (iii) increase with the number of nonmanager shareholders, and (iv) to a lesser extent, are lower with greater monitoring by banks.

The Administrative Costs of Corporate Bankruptcy: A Note

Published: 3/1982,  Volume: 37,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1982.tb01104.x  |  Cited by: 260

JAMES S. ANG, JESS H. CHUA, JOHN J. MCCONNELL

BOND RATING METHODS: COMPARISON AND VALIDATION

Published: 5/1975,  Volume: 30,  Issue: 2  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1975.tb01836.x  |  Cited by: 7

Mary A. Hines, James S. Ang, Kiritkumar A. Patel

The Effect of Taxes on the Relative Valuation of Dividends and Capital Gains: Evidence from Dual‐Class British Investment Trusts

Published: 3/1991,  Volume: 46,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb03756.x  |  Cited by: 20

JAMES S. ANG, DAVID W. BLACKWELL, WILLIAM L. MEGGINSON

We provide evidence that taxes affect equity valuation by studying British investment trusts having otherwise identical classes of cash‐ and stock‐dividend‐paying shares outstanding. We study 1969–1982, a period in which there were two dramatic changes in tax policy. We find that stock‐dividend shares, which are convertible into cash‐dividend shares, sell at premiums when the tax system favors capital gains and at discounts when the tax advantage of capital gains is reduced. After the 1975 elimination of the tax advantage to stock‐dividend shares, we observe that investors convert virtually all stock‐dividend shares into cash‐dividend shares.

A STUDY OF FINANCIAL EXPANSION IN THE BASIC CHEMICAL INDUSTRY, 1947–56*

Published: 3/1962,  Volume: 17,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1962.tb04256.x  |  Cited by: 0

Henry Suihun Ang

How to Discount Cashflows with Time‐Varying Expected Returns

Published: 12/2004,  Volume: 59,  Issue: 6  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2004.00715.x  |  Cited by: 117

ANDREW ANG, JUN LIU

While many studies document that the market risk premium is predictable and that betas are not constant, the dividend discount model ignores time‐varying risk premiums and betas. We develop a model to consistently value cashflows with changing risk‐free rates, predictable risk premiums, and conditional betas in the context of a conditional CAPM. Practical valuation is accomplished with an analytic term structure of discount rates, with different discount rates applied to expected cashflows at different horizons. Using constant discount rates can produce large misvaluations, which, in portfolio data, are mostly driven at short horizons by market risk premiums and at long horizons by time variation in risk‐free rates and factor loadings.

The Term Structure of Real Rates and Expected Inflation

Published: 4/2008,  Volume: 63,  Issue: 2  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2008.01332.x  |  Cited by: 389

ANDREW ANG, GEERT BEKAERT, MIN WEI

Changes in nominal interest rates must be due to either movements in real interest rates, expected inflation, or the inflation risk premium. We develop a term structure model with regime switches, time‐varying prices of risk, and inflation to identify these components of the nominal yield curve. We find that the unconditional real rate curve in the United States is fairly flat around 1.3%. In one real rate regime, the real term structure is steeply downward sloping. An inflation risk premium that increases with maturity fully accounts for the generally upward sloping nominal term structure.

Taxes on Tax‐Exempt Bonds

Published: 3/19/2010,  Volume: 65,  Issue: 2  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2009.01545.x  |  Cited by: 109

ANDREW ANG, VINEER BHANSALI, YUHANG XING

Implicit tax rates priced in the cross section of municipal bonds are approximately two to three times as high as statutory income tax rates, with implicit tax rates close to 100% using retail trades and above 70% for interdealer trades. These implied tax rates can be identified because a portion of secondary market municipal bond trades involves income taxes. After valuing the tax payments, market discount bonds, which carry income tax liabilities, trade at yields around 25 basis points higher than comparable municipal bonds not subject to any taxes. The high sensitivities of municipal bond prices to tax rates can be traced to individual retail traders dominating dealers and other institutions.

Estimating Private Equity Returns from Limited Partner Cash Flows

Published: 7/20/2018,  Volume: 73,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12688  |  Cited by: 123

ANDREW ANG, BINGXU CHEN, WILLIAM N. GOETZMANN, LUDOVIC PHALIPPOU

We introduce a methodology to estimate the historical time series of returns to investment in private equity funds. The approach requires only an unbalanced panel of cash contributions and distributions accruing to limited partners and is robust to sparse data. We decompose private equity returns from 1994 to 2015 into a component due to traded factors and a time‐varying private equity premium not spanned by publicly traded factors. We find cyclicality in private equity returns that differs according to fund type and is consistent with the conjecture that capital market segmentation contributes to private equity returns.

The Cross‐Section of Volatility and Expected Returns

Published: 1/20/2006,  Volume: 61,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2006.00836.x  |  Cited by: 3967

ANDREW ANG, ROBERT J. HODRICK, YUHANG XING, XIAOYAN ZHANG

We examine the pricing of aggregate volatility risk in the cross‐section of stock returns. Consistent with theory, we find that stocks with high sensitivities to innovations in aggregate volatility have low average returns. Stocks with high idiosyncratic volatility relative to the Fama and French (1993, Journal of Financial Economics 25, 2349) model have abysmally low average returns. This phenomenon cannot be explained by exposure to aggregate volatility risk. Size, book‐to‐market, momentum, and liquidity effects cannot account for either the low average returns earned by stocks with high exposure to systematic volatility risk or for the low average returns of stocks with high idiosyncratic volatility.

The Joint Cross Section of Stocks and Options

Published: 9/12/2014,  Volume: 69,  Issue: 5  |  DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12181  |  Cited by: 311

BYEONG‐JE AN, ANDREW ANG, TURAN G. BALI, NUSRET CAKICI

Stocks with large increases in call (put) implied volatilities over the previous month tend to have high (low) future returns. Sorting stocks ranked into decile portfolios by past call implied volatilities produces spreads in average returns of approximately 1% per month, and the return differences persist up to six months. The cross section of stock returns also predicts option implied volatilities, with stocks with high past returns tending to have call and put option contracts that exhibit increases in implied volatility over the next month, but with decreasing realized volatility. These predictability patterns are consistent with rational models of informed trading.

Advance Refundings of Municipal Bonds

Published: 5/15/2017,  Volume: 72,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/jofi.12506  |  Cited by: 47

ANDREW ANG, RICHARD C. GREEN, FRANCIS A. LONGSTAFF, YUHANG XING

The advance refunding of debt is a widespread practice in municipal finance. In an advance refunding, municipalities retire callable bonds early and refund them with bonds with lower coupon rates. We find that 85% of all advance refundings occur at a net present value loss, and that the aggregate losses over the past 20 years exceed $15 billion. We explore why municipalities advance refund their debt at loss. Financially constrained municipalities may face pressure to advance refund since it allows them to reduce short‐term cash outflows. We find strong evidence that financial constraints are a major driver of advance refunding activity.

The Effect of Voluntary Spin‐off Announcements on Shareholder Wealth

Published: 12/1983,  Volume: 38,  Issue: 5  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1983.tb03843.x  |  Cited by: 173

JAMES A. MILES, JAMES D. ROSENFELD

This paper presents estimates of the effect of a voluntary spin‐off announcement on shareholder wealth. The results show that spin‐off announcements have a positive influence on stock prices and that the relative increase in share price is greater for large spin‐offs than for small ones.

IS THE “NEUTRALIZED MONEY STOCK” UNBIASED?*: COMMENT

Published: 12/1976,  Volume: 31,  Issue: 5  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1976.tb03231.x  |  Cited by: 0

James R. Barth, James T. Bennett

BOOKS RECEIVED

Published: 12/1961,  Volume: 16,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1961.tb04243.x  |  Cited by: 0

James Gillies

BOOKS RECEIVED

Published: 3/1962,  Volume: 17,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1962.tb04263.x  |  Cited by: 0

James Gillies

BOOKS RECEIVED

Published: 3/1963,  Volume: 18,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1963.tb01633.x  |  Cited by: 0

James Gillies

The Effect of Common‐Stock Dividend Reductions on the Returns of Nonconvertible Preferred Stocks: A Note

Published: 6/1983,  Volume: 38,  Issue: 3  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1983.tb02517.x  |  Cited by: 2

JAMES ROSENFELD

An Analysis of Bank Loan Rate Indexation

Published: 6/1982,  Volume: 37,  Issue: 3  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1982.tb02225.x  |  Cited by: 13

CHRISTOPHER JAMES

This paper examines the economic rationale for the use of bank loan commitments and the effect on the allocation of bank credit of indexing the loan rate offered through the commitment to the prime. A simple model of the loan market is constructed and used to examine the effect changes in loan demand and the cost of bank funds have on the allocation of bank credit under indexation. It is shown that indexing implies changes in the relative cost of borrowing for certain groups of bank customers. For nonprime customers, an increase in the cost of bank funds results in a decline in the relative cost of borrowing under commitments. The pattern of commitment use is found to be consistent with the predictions of the model.

THE BURDEN OF THE PUBLIC DEBT: A REVIEW ARTICLE

Published: 12/1965,  Volume: 20,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1965.tb02936.x  |  Cited by: 15

James Tobin

The Losses Realized in Bank Failures

Published: 9/1991,  Volume: 46,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1991.tb04616.x  |  Cited by: 294

CHRISTOPHER JAMES

This paper examines the losses realized in bank failures. Losses are measured as the difference between the book value of assets and the recovery value net of the direct expenses associated with the failure. I find the loss on assets is substantial, averaging 30 percent of the failed bank's assets. Direct expenses associated with bank closures average 10 percent of assets. An empirical analysis of the determinants of these losses reveals a significant difference in the value of assets retained by the FDIC and similar assets assumed by acquiring banks.

SOME FINANCIAL ASPECTS OF THE CANADIAN GOVERNMENT HOUSING PROGRAM: HISTORY AND PROSPECTIVE DEVELOPMENTS*

Published: 3/1953,  Volume: 8,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1953.tb01133.x  |  Cited by: 0

James Gillies

BOOKS RECEIVED

Published: 9/1962,  Volume: 17,  Issue: 3  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1962.tb04331.x  |  Cited by: 0

James Gillies

BOOKS RECEIVED

Published: 12/1963,  Volume: 18,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1963.tb01647.x  |  Cited by: 0

James Gillies

Bank Debt Restructurings and the Composition of Exchange Offers in Financial Distress

Published: 6/1996,  Volume: 51,  Issue: 2  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1996.tb02700.x  |  Cited by: 67

CHRISTOPHER JAMES

This article examines the relation between bank debt forgiveness and the structure of public debt exchange offers in financial distress. I find that the structure of exchange offers and the likelihood of an offer's success are significantly related to whether the bank participates in the restructuring transaction. Exchange offers made in conjunction with bank concessions are characterized by significantly greater reductions in public debt outstanding and significantly less senior debt offered to bondholders. Overall, the results suggest that the structure of a firm's public and private claims significantly affects the firm's ability to modify its capital structure in financial distress.

Relationship‐Specific Assets and the Pricing of Underwriter Services

Published: 12/1992,  Volume: 47,  Issue: 5  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1992.tb04686.x  |  Cited by: 96

CHRISTOPHER JAMES

This paper investigates the effect of setup costs on the pricing of investment banking services. The existence of setup costs is predicted to result in lower underwriter spreads in IPOs for firms that are expected to issue again. Consistent with this prediction, I find significantly lower spreads for firms that make subsequent issues. I also find that a firm's likelihood of changing underwriters in a subsequent offer is related to the time between offerings and the underwriter's pricing performance in the IPO. These results suggest that the deviations from optimal IPO pricing carry a penalty for the underwriter.

REPLY

Published: 9/1966,  Volume: 21,  Issue: 3  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1966.tb00257.x  |  Cited by: 0

James Tobin

DOMESTIC POLICY OBJECTIVES AND THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS

Published: 5/1966,  Volume: 21,  Issue: 2  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1966.tb00234.x  |  Cited by: 3

James Duesenberry

THE DEVELOPMENT OF A GENERAL QUASI‐REORGANIZATION CONCEPT*

Published: 9/1956,  Volume: 11,  Issue: 3  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1956.tb00113.x  |  Cited by: 0

James S. Schindler

PROCESS OF ECONOMIC ADAPTATION IN A WORLD WAR II NEUTRAL: A CASE STUDY OF SWEDEN*

Published: 9/1961,  Volume: 16,  Issue: 3  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1961.tb02841.x  |  Cited by: 0

Daniel James Edwards

THE REPETITIVE BIDDING PROCESS IN MUNICIPAL BOND UNDERWRITING, A CHANCE‐CONSTRAINED PROGRAMMING APPROACH*

Published: 9/1974,  Volume: 29,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1974.tb03112.x  |  Cited by: 0

James Michael Kelly

DISCUSSION

Published: 5/1976,  Volume: 31,  Issue: 2  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1976.tb01884.x  |  Cited by: 0

James L. Bicksler

A MODEL OF STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PORTFOLIO AND REAL‐EXPENDITURE BEHAVIOR: 1952–1965*

Published: 6/1970,  Volume: 25,  Issue: 3  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1970.tb00538.x  |  Cited by: 0

James A. Chalmers

THE EQUAL CREDIT OPPORTUNITY ACT OF 1974: A COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS

Published: 5/1977,  Volume: 32,  Issue: 2  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1977.tb03298.x  |  Cited by: 9

James F. Smith

THE CHANGING ROLE OF BANKS IN THE MARKET FOR EQUITIES

Published: 5/1965,  Volume: 20,  Issue: 2  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1965.tb00216.x  |  Cited by: 1

A. James Meigs

ASPECTS OF INSTRUMENT/TARGET LINKS IN CANADIAN MONETARY POLICY*

Published: 3/1974,  Volume: 29,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1974.tb00047.x  |  Cited by: 0

James W. Dean

ANNOUNCEMENT

Published: 9/1959,  Volume: 14,  Issue: 3  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1959.tb00137.x  |  Cited by: 0

James J. O'Leary

Marketplace Fragmentation, Competition, and the Efficiency of the Stock Exchange

Published: 3/1979,  Volume: 34,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1979.tb02078.x  |  Cited by: 52

JAMES L. HAMILTON

ON THE THEORY OF CONGLOMERATE MERGERS

Published: 9/1977,  Volume: 32,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1977.tb03323.x  |  Cited by: 58

James H. Scott

LIQUIDITY AND CORPORATE SPENDING

Published: 12/1953,  Volume: 8,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1953.tb01185.x  |  Cited by: 3

James E. Walter

DISCUSSION

Published: 5/1968,  Volume: 23,  Issue: 2  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1968.tb00810.x  |  Cited by: 0

James A. Attwood

HOUSEHOLD DEMAND FOR FINANCIAL ASSETS, 1947–1967*

Published: 3/1971,  Volume: 26,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1971.tb00603.x  |  Cited by: 0

James Bernard Burnham

A Reply

Published: 3/1955,  Volume: 10,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1955.tb01565.x  |  Cited by: 1

James A. Maxwell

THE OUTLOOK FOR THE BOND MARKET

Published: 5/1963,  Volume: 18,  Issue: 2  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1963.tb00734.x  |  Cited by: 0

James J. O'Leary