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Merger Announcements and Insider Trading Activity: An Empirical Investigation
Published: 09/01/1981 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1981.tb04888.x
ARTHUR J. KEOWN, JOHN M. PINKERTON
This paper provides evidence of excess returns earned by investors in acquired firms prior to the first public announcement of planned mergers. The study is distinguished from earlier merger studies in its use of daily holding period returns for the 194 firms sampled. The results confirm statistically what most traders already know. Impending merger announcements are poorly held secrets, and trading on this nonpublic information abounds. Specifically, leakage of inside information is a pervasive problem occurring at a significant level up to 12 trading days prior to the first public announcement of a proposed merger.
Direct Equity Financing: A Resolution of a Paradox
Published: 06/01/1982 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1982.tb02215.x
ROBERT S. HANSEN, JOHN M. PINKERTON
When raising new equity capital managers have historically rejected the direct offer method favoring instead the seemingly more expensive underwritten public issue. This paper provides a resolution for this equity financing paradox by demonstrating empirically that firms which engage in direct offers enjoy a comparative cost advantage that is more than sufficient to account for the absolute reported cost differences between the two methods of equity financing.
Bankruptcy and Insider Trading: Differences Between Exchange‐Listed and OTC Firms
Published: 03/01/1992 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1992.tb03989.x
THOMAS GOSNELL, ARTHUR J. KEOWN, JOHN M. PINKERTON
Over the two‐year period prior to the bankruptcy announcement, insider trading is significantly greater for OTC bankrupt firms, but not for exchange‐listed firms, than for an industry‐size matched sample of nonbankrupt firms. In addition, the level of insider selling increases over the final five months leading to the first public announcement of OTC firms. Finally, firms displaying the most negative price reaction over the announcement period are found to have a significantly larger proportion of insider selling than other firms.
The Purchasing Power of Money and Nominal Interest Rates: A Re‐Examination
Published: 12/01/1988 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1988.tb03959.x
DILIP K. SHOME, STEPHEN D. SMITH, JOHN M. PINKERTON
While it has been known for some time that, under uncertainty, the original version of the Fisher hypothesis is not precisely correct, empirical researchers have largely ignored this fact. Such an omission has possibly resulted in erroneous conclusions concerning other hypotheses; most notably the impact of prices on the real economy. This paper clarifies some of the previous interpretations of the existing empirical literature and provides a theoretical version of the relation between prices and interest rates. Empirical tests based on both the Livingston survey data and data from time‐series forecasting models provide support for the Fisher effect and the hypothesis that only covariance risk is priced in the Treasury bill market.