Managerial Finance: Volume 44 Issue 8

The role of online freelance stock analysts in correcting overly pessimistic market sentiment

Myungsun Kim, Robert Kim, Onook Oh, H. Raghav Rao

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of online freelance stock analysts in correcting mispricing of hard-to-value firms during sentiment-driven market periods.

Short interest in mergers: anomalies in the overvaluation hypothesis

Sean M. Davis, Jeffrey M. Coy, Fernando Guillen Solis

High short interest is associated with overvaluation, and the purpose of this paper is to find contradictions to the commonly held “overvaluation hypothesis” when merger and…

Gross profitability and momentum

Ajay Bhootra

The purpose of this paper is to examine the combined performance of momentum and a gross profitability-based strategy. The motivation stems from the strong performance of momentum…

Stock price crash risk and unexpected earnings thresholds

Wing Him Yeung, Camillo Lento

The purpose of this paper is to examine stock price crash risk (SPCR) as a function of meeting or missing three earnings thresholds – reporting a profit (earnings level)…

SOX vs C-SOX: which one works better?

Harjeet Bhabra, Ashrafee Tanvir Hossain

The purpose of this paper is to analyze and compare the influence of the Sarbanes–Oxley (SOX) Act of the USA and the Canadian SOX (C-SOX) through the comparison of corporate…

CEO incentive pay around performance declines

Jean Canil, Bruce Rosser

The authors study stock and option grants around abrupt performance declines for continuing CEOs and find that firms facing abrupt financial declines grant more options than…