Knowledge that Transforms

ABSTRACT While there has been an abundance of empirical research on the subject of mergers and acquisitions, little research exists on a closely related topic—voluntary corporate selloffs. This study examines the effect on shareholder wealth of the announcement by management of an investment decision to voluntarily sell part of its operations to another firm. Positive abnormal returns are found to occur on the announcement date. However, it is found that such selloffs generally occur after a period of abnormally negative returns, suggesting the announcement is preceded by the release of negative information about the firm.

ABSTRACT This paper uses British data to examine the effects of dividend taxes on investors' relative valuation of dividends and capital gains. British data offer great potential to illuminate the dividends and taxes question, since there have been two radical changes and several minor reforms in British dividend tax policy during the last 30 years. Studying the relationship between dividends and stock price movements during different tax regimes offers an ideal controlled experiment for assessing the effects of taxes on investors' valuation of dividends. Using daily data on a small sample of firms, and monthly data on a much broader sample, we find clear evidence that taxes affect the equilibrium relationship between dividend yields and market returns. These findings suggest that taxes are important determinants of security market equilibrium and deepen the puzzle of why firms pay dividends.

ABSTRACT This paper conducts empirical tests of the equality of real interest rates across countries. The empirical evidence strongly rejects the hypothesis of real rate equality and the joint hypotheses of uncovered interest parity and ex ante relative PPP, or the unbiasedness of forward rate forecasts and ex ante relative PPP. The evidence suggests that it is worth studying open economy macroeconomic models which allow: 1) domestic real rates to differ from world rates, 2) time varying risk premiums in the forward market, or 3) deviations from ex ante relative PPP.

Part I: Global Environment Chapter 1: Globalization and the Multinational Enterprise Chapter 2: Financial Goals & Governance Chapter 3: The International Monetary System Chapter 4: The Balance of Payments Chapter 5: Current Multinational Financial Challenges: Crisis Part II: Foreign Exchange Theory and Markets Chapter 6: The Foreign Exchange Market Chapter 7: International Parity Conditions Appendix: Algebraic Primer to International Parity Conditions Chapter 8: Foreign Currency Derivatives Appendix: Currency Option Pricing Theory Chapter 9: Interest Rate and Cross Currency Swaps Chapter 10: Foreign Exchange Rate Determination & Forecasting Part III: Foreign Exchange Exposure Chapter 11: Transaction Exposure Appendix: Complex Options Chapter 12: Operating Exposure Chapter 13: Translation Exposure Part IV: Financing the Global Firm Chapter 14: The Global Cost and Availability of Capital Chapter 15: Sourcing Equity Globally Chapter 16: Sourcing Debt Globally Part V: Foreign Investment Decisions Chapter 17: International Portfolio Theory & Investment Chapter 18: Foreign Direct Investment Theory & Strategy Chapter 19: Multinational Capital Budgeting Part VI: Managing Multinational Operations Chapter 20: Multinational Tax Management Chapter 21: Working Capital Management Chapter 22: International Trade Finance

ABSTRACT This study provides further evidence on the rates of return realized by the shareholders of multinational firms relative to those of purely domestic firms. The results indicate that the risk‐adjusted returns realized by the shareholders are identical across the two groups except where the MNC operates in competitive foreign markets. In that case, MNC shareholders experience negative abnormal returns. The study also provides further evidence on the risk‐reduction effect of international diversification. The results fail to support the hypothesis that the beta is a convex function of the degree of international involvement. Finally, the paper provides some preliminary evidence on the effect of corporate international diversification on shareholders' returns. It is found that abnormal returns rise by some 18 percent during the 14 months preceding the initial foreign diversification.

Winner of the 1983 Lanchester Prize of the Operations Research Society of AmericaThis book by a recognized authority on game theory and its applications introduces social scientists in a variety of disciplines to this powerful methodology. The emphasis throughout is on the empirical approach to model building and testing within the context of real-world situations.Martin Shubik, who has made numerous applications of game theory to economics and the social sciences as well as significant contributions to the fundamental development of the subject, is Seymour H. Knox Professor of Mathematical Institutional Economics at Yale University. The second volume of Game Theory in the Social Sciences, A Game Theoretic Approach to Political Economy was published by The MIT Press in 1984.