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Dealer Bid‐Ask Quotes and Transaction Prices: An Empirical Study of Some AMEX Options
Published: 3/1984, Volume: 39, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1984.tb03858.x | Cited by: 46
THOMAS S. Y. HO, RICHARD G. MACRIS
This paper, utilizing dealer's “trading book” information, presents some empirical evidence supporting the validity of a dealer pricing model. It shows that much of the transaction prices variation may be explained by the specialist's optimal determination of his bid and ask quotes. Furthermore, it demonstrates that the dealer's bid‐ask spread is an important explanatory variable in the observed transaction return. Finally, it indicates that the dealer's inventory level may affect his quotes and thus the transaction prices and order arrivals. The paper provides insights into the relationship between transaction prices and equilibrium prices, which will permit more extensive use of transaction data in empirical investigations. It also provides a better understanding of optimal dealer pricing strategies, suggesting that the proposed empirical model may be used to evaluate a dealer's trading performance.
IMPUTED RENT OF OWNER‐OCCUPIED DWELLINGS UNDER THE INCOME TAX
Published: 12/1960, Volume: 15, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1960.tb02766.x | Cited by: 19
Richard Goode
Financial Expertise as an Arms Race
Published: 9/12/2012, Volume: 67, Issue: 5 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2012.01771.x | Cited by: 109
VINCENT GLODE, RICHARD C. GREEN, RICHARD LOWERY
We show that firms intermediating trade have incentives to overinvest in financial expertise. In our model, expertise improves firms’ ability to estimate value when trading a security. Expertise creates asymmetric information, which, under normal circumstances, works to the advantage of the expert as it deters opportunistic bargaining by counterparties. This advantage is neutralized in equilibrium, however, by offsetting investments by competitors. Moreover, when volatility rises the adverse selection created by expertise triggers breakdowns in liquidity, destroying gains to trade and thus the benefits that firms hope to gain through high levels of expertise.
AMBIGUITY WHEN PERFORMANCE IS MEASURED BY THE SECURITIES MARKET LINE
Published: 9/1978, Volume: 33, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1978.tb02047.x | Cited by: 299
Richard Roll
A Simple Implicit Measure of the Effective Bid‐Ask Spread in an Efficient Market
Published: 9/1984, Volume: 39, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1984.tb03897.x | Cited by: 1409
RICHARD ROLL
In an efficient market, the fundamental value of a security fluctuates randomly. However, trading costs induce negative serial dependence in successive observed market price changes. In fact, given market efficiency, the effective bid‐ask spread can be measured by where “cov” is the first‐order serial covariance of price changes. This implicit measure of the bid‐ask spread is derived formally and is shown empirically to be closely related to firm size.
THE REFUNDING DECISION IN NEAR PERFECT MARKETS
Published: 12/1974, Volume: 29, Issue: 5 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1974.tb03128.x | Cited by: 2
Richard Kolodny
DISCUSSION
Published: 7/1984, Volume: 39, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1984.tb03652.x | Cited by: 0
RICHARD RUBACK
CORPORATE BORROWING DECISIONS AND THE EVALUATION OF INTEREST RATE FORECASTS*
Published: 9/1974, Volume: 29, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1974.tb03113.x | Cited by: 0
Richard Kolodny
MONETARY EQUILIBRIUM AND INTERNATIONAL RESERVE FLOWS IN AUSTRALIA
Published: 12/1974, Volume: 29, Issue: 5 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1974.tb03133.x | Cited by: 6
Richard Zecher
A Nonparametric Model of Term Structure Dynamics and the Market Price of Interest Rate Risk
Published: 12/1997, Volume: 52, Issue: 5 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1997.tb02748.x | Cited by: 294
RICHARD STANTON
This article presents a technique for nonparametrically estimating continuous‐time diffusion processes that are observed at discrete intervals. We illustrate the methodology by using daily three and six month Treasury Bill data, from January 1965 to July 1995, to estimate the drift and diffusion of the short rate, and the market price of interest rate risk. While the estimated diffusion is similar to that estimated by Chan, Karolyi, Longstaff, and Sanders (1992), there is evidence of substantial nonlinearity in the drift. This is close to zero for low and medium interest rates, but mean reversion increases sharply at higher interest rates.
Industrial Structure and the Comparative Behavior of International Stock Market Indices
Published: 3/1992, Volume: 47, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1992.tb03977.x | Cited by: 506
RICHARD ROLL
Stock Price Indices are compared across countries in an attempt to explain why they exhibit such disparate behavior. Three separate explanatory influences are empirically documented. First, part of the behavior can be attributed to a technical aspect of index construction; some indices are more diversified than others. Second, each country's industrial structure plays a major role in explaining stock price behavior. Third, for the majority of countries, a portion of national equity index behavior can be ascribed to exchange rate behavior. Exchange rates explain a significant portion of common currency denominated national index returns, although the amount explained by exchange rates is less than the amount explained by industrial structure for most countries.
BALANCE‐OF‐PAYMENTS PROBLEMS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES*
Published: 3/1954, Volume: 9, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1954.tb01207.x | Cited by: 0
Richard Perlman
INTEREST RATES ON MONETARY ASSETS AND COMMODITY PRICE INDEX CHANGES
Published: 5/1972, Volume: 27, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1972.tb00958.x | Cited by: 56
Richard Roll
Bankruptcy Risk and Optimal Capital Structure
Published: 12/1983, Volume: 38, Issue: 5 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1983.tb03845.x | Cited by: 184
RICHARD CASTANIAS
This study finds shortcomings in empirical tests of the capital structure irrelevance hypothesis. The alternative hypothesis is that firms choose value maximizing mixes of debt and equity on account of bankruptcy costs and the tax deductibility of interest payments. Based upon the cross‐sectional implications of the tax shelter‐bankruptcy cost hypothesis, an alternative test of the irrelevance hypothesis is performed. The test examines the relationship between failure rates and leverage ratios for 36 lines of business. The results are inconsistent with the irrelevance hypothesis.
AN EMPIRICAL TEST OF THE ALTERNATIVE HYPOTHESES OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PRICING OF RISKY ASSETS
Published: 5/1977, Volume: 32, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1977.tb03287.x | Cited by: 136
Richard Stehle
A Possible Explanation of the Small Firm Effect
Published: 9/1981, Volume: 36, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1981.tb04890.x | Cited by: 230
RICHARD ROLL
Recent empirical studies have found that small listed firms yield higher average returns than large firms even when their riskiness is equal. The riskiness of small firms, however, has been improperly measured. Apparently, the error is due to auto‐correlation in portfolio returns caused by infrequent trading. Other anomalous predictors of riskadjusted returns, such as price/earnings ratios and dividend yields, may also derive some of their apparent power from this spurious source.
THE AMERICAN CAPITAL MARKET, 1846–1914: A STUDY OF THE EFFECTS OF PUBLIC POLICY ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT*
Published: 9/1970, Volume: 25, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1970.tb00579.x | Cited by: 1
Richard Sylla
DEPOSIT COMPOSITION AND COMMERCIAL BANK EARNINGS*
Published: 12/1971, Volume: 26, Issue: 5 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1971.tb01762.x | Cited by: 0
Richard Bond
EVIDENCE ON THE “GROWTH‐OPTIMUM” MODEL
Published: 6/1973, Volume: 28, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1973.tb01378.x | Cited by: 17
Richard Roll
INVESTMENT DIVERSIFICATION AND BOND MATURITY
Published: 3/1971, Volume: 26, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1971.tb00588.x | Cited by: 40
Richard Roll
R2
Published: 7/1988, Volume: 43, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1988.tb04591.x | Cited by: 632
RICHARD ROLL
Even with hindsight, the ability to explain stock price changes is modest. s were calculated for the returns of large stocks as explained by systematic economic influences, by the returns on other stocks in the same industry, and by public firm‐specific news events. The average adjusted is only about .35 with monthly data and .20 with daily data. There is little relation between explanatory power and either the firm's size or its industry. There is little improvement in from eliminating all dates surrounding news reports in the financial press. However, the sample kurtosis is quite different when such news events are eliminated, thereby revealing a mixture of return distributions. Non‐news dates also indicate the presence of a distributional mixture, perhaps due to traders acting on private information.
SOME CONSIDERATIONS ON THE INCIDENCE OF THE CORPORATION INCOME TAX (Discussion)
Published: 6/1951, Volume: 6, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1951.tb04458.x | Cited by: 0
Richard Goode
EXPECTATIONS, RISK, AND THE TERM STRUCTURE OF INTEREST RATES*
Published: 6/1970, Volume: 25, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1970.tb00545.x | Cited by: 1
Richard C. Sutch
DEPOSIT COMPOSITION AND COMMERCIAL BANK EARNINGS
Published: 3/1971, Volume: 26, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1971.tb00587.x | Cited by: 5
Richard E. Bond
A Note on Capital Budgeting Techniques and the Reinvestment Rate
Published: 12/1979, Volume: 34, Issue: 5 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1979.tb00070.x | Cited by: 10
RICHARD L. MEYER
A General Diversification Theorem: A Note
Published: 6/1984, Volume: 39, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1984.tb02327.x | Cited by: 13
RICHARD D. MacMINN
INTEREST RATES, CONTRACT TERMS, AND THE ALLOCATION OF MORTGAGE FUNDS*
Published: 3/1962, Volume: 17, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1962.tb04249.x | Cited by: 2
Richard F. Muth
INITIAL AND INVESTMENT ALLOWANCES UNDER THE BRITISH INCOME TAX AND COUNTER‐CYCLICAL POLICY*
Published: 9/1962, Volume: 17, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1962.tb04304.x | Cited by: 0
Richard Miller Bird
A NOTE ON THE COST OF TRADE CREDIT AND THE DISCRIMINATORY EFFECTS OF MONETARY POLICY
Published: 12/1974, Volume: 29, Issue: 5 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1974.tb03140.x | Cited by: 1
Richard H. Keehn
Report of the Editor of The Journal of Finance for the Year 2002
Published: 7/15/2003, Volume: 58, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/1540-6261.00585 | Cited by: 0
SOME VALUE‐ADDED TAX IMPACTS ON THE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS OF PRODUCERS
Published: 9/1968, Volume: 23, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1968.tb00848.x | Cited by: 0
Richard W. Lindholm
DISCUSSION
Published: 3/1950, Volume: 5, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1950.tb00098.x | Cited by: 0
Richard C. Youngdahl
RETIREMENT OF NON‐CALLABLE PREFERRED STOCK
Published: 12/1970, Volume: 25, Issue: 5 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1970.tb00875.x | Cited by: 3
Richard A. Stevenson
TRADING IN WARRANTS BY MECHANICAL SYSTEMS
Published: 3/1977, Volume: 32, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1977.tb03244.x | Cited by: 1
Richard J. Rogalski
DISCUSSION
Published: 5/1969, Volume: 24, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1969.tb01686.x | Cited by: 1
Richard S. Bower
Forward Markets, Stock Markets, and the Theory of the Firm
Published: 12/1987, Volume: 42, Issue: 5 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1987.tb04359.x | Cited by: 17
RICHARD D. MacMINN
This paper models a competitive financial market economy in which there are forward markets as well as stock and bond markets. Although there are separation theorems in the stock and forward markets literatures, this analysis shows that neither separation theorem survives in this integrated financial market economy. Next, the analysis shows that the separation results hold and are equivalent if the manager has an appropriate compensation package. Then the model is modified to allow for depreciation charges and tax credits. A positive theory of hedging is developed that shows that the corporation can preserve deductions and credits by hedging and so increase corporate value.
AN ANALYSIS OF THE USE OF COST‐OF‐CAPITAL CONCEPTS IN NATURAL‐GAS‐PIPELINE RATE REGULATION*
Published: 9/1968, Volume: 23, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1968.tb00858.x | Cited by: 0
Richard A. Oppedahl
Macroinformation and the Variability of Stock Market Prices
Published: 5/1979, Volume: 34, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1979.tb02107.x | Cited by: 43
RICHARD P. CASTANIAS
THE POSTWAR RISE IN THE VELOCITY OF MONEY A SECTORAL ANALYSIS*
Published: 12/1961, Volume: 16, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1961.tb04235.x | Cited by: 6
Richard T. Selden
THE PERMANENT INCOME‐WEALTH APPROACH TO THE DEMAND FOR MONEY: ANALYTICAL AND EMPIRICAL ASPECTS*
Published: 3/1967, Volume: 22, Issue: 1 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1967.tb01669.x | Cited by: 0
Richard H. Puckett
DISCUSSION
Published: 7/1984, Volume: 39, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1984.tb03676.x | Cited by: 2
RICHARD J. ROGALSKI
Mutual Fund Incubation
Published: 7/15/2010, Volume: 65, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.2010.01579.x | Cited by: 607
RICHARD B. EVANS
Incubation is a strategy for initiating new funds, where multiple funds are started privately, and, at the end of an evaluation period, some are opened to the public. Consistent with incubation being used by fund families to increase performance and attract flows, funds in incubation outperform nonincubated funds by 3.5% risk‐adjusted, and when they are opened to the public they attract higher flows. Postincubation, however, this outperformance disappears. This performance reversal imparts an upward bias to returns that is not removed by a fund size filter. Fund age and ticker creation date filters, however, eliminate the bias.
BANKING STRUCTURE AND BANK PERFORMANCE: A CASE STUDY OF THREE SMALL MARKET AREAS*
Published: 9/1965, Volume: 20, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1965.tb02925.x | Cited by: 0
Richard S. Wallace
RISK‐PREMIUM CURVES FOR DIFFERENT CLASSES OF LONG‐TERM SECURITIES, 1950–1966: COMMENT
Published: 9/1972, Volume: 27, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1972.tb01327.x | Cited by: 1
Richard W. McEnally
U.S. MONETARY POLICY AND THE BALANCE OF PAYMENTS, 1950–60*
Published: 12/1962, Volume: 17, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1962.tb04348.x | Cited by: 0
Richard A. Ward
Benchmark Portfolio Inefficiency and Deviations from the Security Market Line
Published: 6/1986, Volume: 41, Issue: 2 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1986.tb05037.x | Cited by: 23
RICHARD C. GREEN
This paper theoretically evaluates the robustness of the Security Market Line relationship when the market proxy employed is not mean‐variance efficient. The analysis focuses on the behavior of the “benchmark errors,” the deviations of assets and portfolios from the Security Market Line. First, we characterize how the location of an asset in mean‐variance space determines its benchmark error. Then the continuity properties of the benchmark errors are studied. The results indicate that the magnitudes of the errors exhibit continuous but not uniformly continuous behaviors. The relative rankings based on deviations from the Security Market Line, however, exhibit some severe discontinuities. In fact, these can be exactly reversed for two proxies arbitrarily close in mean‐variance space.
THE DYNAMICS OF CORPORATE CAPITAL BUDGETING
Published: 6/1974, Volume: 29, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1974.tb01486.x | Cited by: 8
Richard R. Spies
A NOTE ON THE IMPLICATIONS OF PERIODIC “CASH FLOW”
Published: 12/1962, Volume: 17, Issue: 4 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1962.tb04341.x | Cited by: 0
M. Richard Sussman
DISCUSSION
Published: 7/1985, Volume: 40, Issue: 3 | DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6261.1985.tb05029.x | Cited by: 0
RICHARD P. CASTANIAS