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- Working Paper
Avoiding Idiosyncratic Volatility: Flow Sensitivity to Individual Stock Returns
By: Marco Di Maggio, Francesco Franzoni, Shimon Kogan and Ran Xing
Despite positive and significant earnings announcement premia, we find that institutional investors reduce their exposure to stocks before earnings announcements. A novel result on the sensitivity of flows to individual stock returns provides a potential explanation.... View Details
Keywords: New Trading; Mutual Funds; Fund Flows; Limits To Arbitrage; Financial Constraints; Earnings Announcements; Institutional Investing; Stocks
Di Maggio, Marco, Francesco Franzoni, Shimon Kogan, and Ran Xing. "Avoiding Idiosyncratic Volatility: Flow Sensitivity to Individual Stock Returns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-072, March 2023. (Revise and Resubmit to The Journal of Finance.)
- February 2002
- Article
Stock Options for Undiversified Executives
By: Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy
Hall, Brian J., and Kevin J. Murphy. "Stock Options for Undiversified Executives." Journal of Accounting & Economics 33, no. 1 (February 2002).
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Analyst Disagreement, Forecast Bias and Stock Returns
- 2021
- Working Paper
Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock Returns
By: Ki-Soon Choi, Eric So and Charles C.Y. Wang
We study the use of firms’ book-to-market ratios (B/M) in value investing and its implications for comovements in firms’ stock returns and trading volumes. We show B/M has become increasingly detached from common alternative valuation ratios over time while also... View Details
Choi, Ki-Soon, Eric So, and Charles C.Y. Wang. "Going by the Book: Valuation Ratios and Stock Returns." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-126, May 2021.
- 20 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
The Stock Selection and Performance of Buy-Side Analysts
- Article
The Comovement of Stock Prices
By: J. J. Rotemberg and Robert Pindyck
Rotemberg, J. J., and Robert Pindyck. "The Comovement of Stock Prices." Quarterly Journal of Economics 108, no. 4 (November 1993): 1073–1104.
- September 1999 (Revised December 2000)
- Case
Boeing Company's Accounting for Executive Stock Compensation, The
By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Executive stock options are experiencing increased use and the Financial Accounting Standards Board is proposing changes in accounting in the United States. View Details
Healy, Paul M., and Jacob Cohen. "Boeing Company's Accounting for Executive Stock Compensation, The." Harvard Business School Case 100-031, September 1999. (Revised December 2000.)
- June 1995
- Teaching Note
ARPPS: Adjustable Rate Perpetual Preferred Stock and MMP: Money Market Preferred Stock TN
By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee
Keywords: Stocks
- Article
Accounting Changes and Stock Prices
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Richard Roll
Kaplan, Robert S., and Richard Roll. "Accounting Changes and Stock Prices." Financial Analysts Journal (January–February 1973): 48–53.
- August 2006
- Article
Investor Sentiment and the Cross Section of Stock Returns
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
We examine how investor sentiment affects the cross-section of stock returns. Theory predicts that a broad wave of sentiment will disproportionately affect stocks whose valuations are highly subjective and are difficult to arbitrage. We test this prediction by... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Stocks; Investment Return; Forecasting and Prediction; Motivation and Incentives; Risk and Uncertainty; Volatility
Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Investor Sentiment and the Cross Section of Stock Returns." Journal of Finance 61, no. 4 (August 2006): 1645–1680.
- Research Summary
Analyst Disagreement, Forecast Bias and Stock Returns
We present evidence of inefficient information processing in
equity markets by documenting that biases in analysts' earnings
forecasts are reflected in stock prices. In particular, investors
fail to account for analysts' tendency to withhold negative views
and to issue... View Details
- May 2011
- Case
Oriental Fortune Capital: Building a Better Stock Exchange
By: Josh Lerner and Keith Chi-ho Wong
When ChiNext opened in October 2009 as the second tier market of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), it aimed to provide Chinese entrepreneurs with equity capital and to facilitate the exits of venture capital firms and other investors which had previously relied on... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Stocks; Financial Markets; Venture Capital; Private Equity; International Finance; Financial Services Industry; China
Lerner, Josh, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "Oriental Fortune Capital: Building a Better Stock Exchange." Harvard Business School Case 811-105, May 2011.
- December 2003
- Article
Expensing Stock Options: A Fair-Value Approach
By: Robert S. Kaplan and Krishna G. Palepu
Kaplan, Robert S., and Krishna G. Palepu. "Expensing Stock Options: A Fair-Value Approach." Harvard Business Review 81, no. 12 (December 2003).
- Article
The Trouble with Executive Stock Options
By: Brian J. Hall and Kevin J. Murphy
Hall, Brian J., and Kevin J. Murphy. "The Trouble with Executive Stock Options." Journal of Economic Perspectives 17, no. 3 (Summer 2003).
- 09 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Aggregate and Firm-Level Stock Returns During Pandemics, in Real Time
- February 2015
- Article
Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?
By: John Asker, Joan Farre-Mensa and Alexander Ljungqvist
We investigate whether short-termism distorts the investment decisions of stock market listed firms. To do so, we compare the investment behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification... View Details
Asker, John, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Alexander Ljungqvist. "Corporate Investment and Stock Market Listing: A Puzzle?" Review of Financial Studies 28, no. 2 (February 2015): 342–390.
- Article
Targeted Repurchases and Common Stock Returns
By: R. S. Ruback and W. Mikkelson
Ruback, R. S., and W. Mikkelson. "Targeted Repurchases and Common Stock Returns." RAND Journal of Economics 22, no. 4 (Winter 1991): 544–561.
- 2003
- Article
Confirming Management Earnings Forecasts, Earnings Uncertainty, and Stock Returns
By: Michael B. Clement, Richard Frankel and Jeffrey Miller
In this study we examine the association among confirming management forecasts, stock prices, and analyst expectations. Confirming management forecasts are voluntary disclosures by management that corroborate existing market expectations about future earnings. This... View Details
Clement, Michael B., Richard Frankel, and Jeffrey Miller. "Confirming Management Earnings Forecasts, Earnings Uncertainty, and Stock Returns." Journal of Accounting Research 41, no. 4 (2003): 653–679.