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WORKING PAPERS

"How Informative are Analyst Recommendations and Insider Trades," with Lilian Ng and Qinghai Wang

"Shareholder Voting Rights in Mergers and Acquisitions," with Qinghai Wang

"Determinants of the Trends in Aggregate Corporate Payout Policy," with Qinghai Wang

 

PUBLISHED OR FORTHCOMING ARTICLES

"Determinants and Implications of Arbitrage Holdings in Acquisitions," with Ralph Walkling, Journal of Financial Economics 77, September 2005.

"The History and Performance of Concept Stocks," with Ralph Walkling, Journal of Banking and Finance 30, September 2006.

"Insiders' Tax Preferences and Firm's Choice between Dividends and Share Repurchases," with Qinghai Wang, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 43, March 2008.

"Stock Repurchases: Theory and Evidence," with Qinghai Wang, Kolb Series in Finance: Dividends and Dividend Policy, edited by H. Kent Baker, 2009.

"Informed Trading Before Analyst Downgrades: Evidence from Short Sellers," with Stephen Christophe and Michael Ferri, Journal of Financial Economics 95, January 2010.

"A Theory of Merger-Driven IPOs," with Evgeny Lyandres and Alexei Zhdanov, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis 46, October 2011.

 "Short Selling and Cross-Section of Corporate Bond Returns," with Steve Christophe, Mike Ferri, and Dolly King, Journal of Fixed Income 26, Fall 2016.

"Why Investors Want to Know the Size of Your Shorts," with Steve Christophe and Mike Ferri, Advances in Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management, forthcoming, 2017.

"The Importance of Blockholder Heterogeneity: Security Market Effects and Follow-on Activities," with Dolly King, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, forthcoming, 2017.