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The January Anomaly: Effects of Low Share Price, Transaction Costs, and Bid‐Ask Bias

Published: 6/1992,  Volume: 47,  Issue: 2  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1992.tb04401.x  |  Cited by: 153

RAVINDER K. BHARDWAJ, LEROY D. BROOKS

The January effect is primarily a low‐share price effect and less so a market value effect. In the recent 1977–1986 period, after‐transaction‐cost raw and excess January returns are lower on low‐price stocks than on high‐price stocks. Failure of informed traders to eliminate significantly large before‐transaction‐cost excess January returns on low‐price stocks is potentially explained by higher transaction costs and a bid‐ask bias. At the least, the January anomaly found in prior tests is not persistent, and thereby, not likely to be exploitable by typical investors.


FURTHER EVIDENCE OF THE TIME SERIES PROPERTIES OF ACCOUNTING INCOME

Published: 12/1976,  Volume: 31,  Issue: 5  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1976.tb03218.x  |  Cited by: 172

LeRoy D. Brooks, Dale A. Buckmaster


The Information Content of Municipal Bond Rating Changes: A Note

Published: 6/1983,  Volume: 38,  Issue: 3  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1983.tb02514.x  |  Cited by: 75

ROBERT W. INGRAM, LEROY D. BROOKS, RONALD M. COPELAND*


EFFICIENT CAPITAL MARKETS: COMMENT

Published: 3/1976,  Volume: 31,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1976.tb03204.x  |  Cited by: 55

Stephen F. LeRoy


MAJOR FACTORS AND TRENDS IN THE GOVERNMENT BOND MARKET

Published: 5/1953,  Volume: 8,  Issue: 2  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1953.tb01163.x  |  Cited by: 0

Leroy M. Piser


Expectations Models of Asset Prices: A Survey of Theory

Published: 3/1982,  Volume: 37,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1982.tb01103.x  |  Cited by: 41

STEPHEN F. LEROY

This paper identifies restrictions on preferences under which various classes of “expectations” theories of asset prices—i.e., uncertainty models of asset prices which coincide with the corresponding certainty theory except that expected future prices replace actual future prices—are valid. Major classes of expectations models surveyed are martingale models, the expectations hypothesis of the term structure of interest rates, and models of exhaustible resources and futures markets. In each case the required restriction is related to the assumptiono f risk—neutrality, but the precise nature of the required restriction is shown to differ significantly among the various classes of expectations theories.


THE COST OF EXTERNAL COMMON STOCK EQUITY CAPITAL FOR SMALL BUSINESS: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF NEW COMMON STOCK OFFERINGS*

Published: 12/1964,  Volume: 19,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1964.tb02898.x  |  Cited by: 0

LeRoy Geoege Faerber


SOME EFFECTS OF NON‐CONTRIBUTORY PENSION PLANS ON THE FINANCIAL POLICY OF CORPORATIONS*

Published: 12/1956,  Volume: 11,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1956.tb04088.x  |  Cited by: 0

Keith Leroy Broman


THE RECAPTURE OF INSIDERS' PROFITS

Published: 9/1953,  Volume: 8,  Issue: 3  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1953.tb01172.x  |  Cited by: 1

Leroy A. Shattuck


A Note on the Local Expectations Hypothesis: A Discrete‐Time Exposition—Erratum

Published: 6/1987,  Volume: 42,  Issue: 2  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1987.tb02580.x  |  Cited by: 0

CHRISTIAN GILLES, STEPHEN F. LeROY


A Note on the Local Expectations Hypothesis: A Discrete‐Time Exposition

Published: 9/1986,  Volume: 41,  Issue: 4  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1986.tb04560.x  |  Cited by: 9

CHRISTIAN GILLES, STEPHEN F. LEROY


FIRM SIZE AND THE COST OF EXTERNALLY SECURED EQUITY CAPITAL

Published: 3/1966,  Volume: 21,  Issue: 1  |  DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1966.tb02955.x  |  Cited by: 34

Stephen H. Archer, LeRoy G. Faerber