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• DOIDGE, C., KAROLYI, G. A., & STULZ, R. M. (2010). Why Do Foreign Firms Leave U.S. Equity Markets? The Journal of Finance, 65, 1507–1553.

  ABSTRACT Foreign firms terminate their Securities and Exchange Commission registration in the aftermath of the Sarbanes?Oxley Act (SOX) because they no longer require outside funds to finance growth opportunities. Deregistering firms? insiders benefit from greater discretion to consume private benefits without having to raise higher cost funds. Foreign firms with more agency problems have worse stock-price reactions to the adoption of Rule 12h-6 in 2007, which made deregistration easier, than those firms more adversely affected by the compliance costs of SOX. Stock-price reactions to deregistration announcements are negative, but less so under Rule 12h-6, and more so for firms that raise fewer funds externally.

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• DUFFIE, D. (2010). Presidential Address: Asset Price Dynamics with Slow-Moving Capital. The Journal of Finance, 65, 1237–1267.

  ABSTRACT I describe asset price dynamics caused by the slow movement of investment capital to trading opportunities. The pattern of price responses to supply or demand shocks typically involves a sharp reaction to the shock and a subsequent and more extended reversal. The amplitude of the immediate price impact and the pattern of the subsequent recovery can reflect institutional impediments to immediate trade, such as search costs for trading counterparties or time to raise capital by intermediaries. I discuss special impediments to capital formation during the recent financial crisis that caused asset price distortions, which subsided afterward. After presenting examples of price reactions to supply shocks in normal market settings, I offer a simple illustrative model of price dynamics associated with slow-moving capital due to the presence of inattentive investors.

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• EVANS, R. B. (2010). Mutual Fund Incubation. The Journal of Finance, 65, 1581–1611.

  ABSTRACT 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.

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• HESTON, S. L., KORAJCZYK, R. A., & SADKA, R. (2010). Intraday Patterns in the Cross-section of Stock Returns. The Journal of Finance, 65, 1369–1407.

  ABSTRACT Motivated by the literature on investment flows and optimal trading, we examine intraday predictability in the cross-section of stock returns. We find a striking pattern of return continuation at half-hour intervals that are exact multiples of a trading day, and this effect lasts for at least 40 trading days. Volume, order imbalance, volatility, and bid-ask spreads exhibit similar patterns, but do not explain the return patterns. We also show that short-term return reversal is driven by temporary liquidity imbalances lasting less than an hour and bid-ask bounce. Timing trades can reduce execution costs by the equivalent of the effective spread.

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• LINNAINMAA, J. T. (2010). Do Limit Orders Alter Inferences about Investor Performance and Behavior? The Journal of Finance, 65, 1473–1506.

  ABSTRACT Individual investors lose money around earnings announcements, experience poor posttrade returns, exhibit the disposition effect, and make contrarian trades. Using simulations and trading records of all individual investors in Finland, I find that these trading patterns can be explained in large part by investors' use of limit orders. These patterns arise mechanically because limit orders are price-contingent and suffer from adverse selection. Reverse causality from behavioral biases to order choices does not appear to explain my findings. I propose a simple method for measuring a data set's susceptibility to this limit order effect.

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• MENZLY, L., & OZBAS, O. (2010). Market Segmentation and Cross-predictability of Returns. The Journal of Finance, 65, 1555–1580.

  ABSTRACT We present evidence supporting the hypothesis that due to investor specialization and market segmentation, value-relevant information diffuses gradually in financial markets. Using the stock market as our setting, we find that (i) stocks that are in economically related supplier and customer industries cross-predict each other's returns, (ii) the magnitude of return cross-predictability declines with the number of informed investors in the market as proxied by the level of analyst coverage and institutional ownership, and (iii) changes in the stock holdings of institutional investors mirror the model trading behavior of informed investors.

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• ROUTLEDGE, B. R., & ZIN, S. E. (2010). Generalized Disappointment Aversion and Asset Prices. The Journal of Finance, 65, 1303–1332.

  ABSTRACT We characterize generalized disappointment aversion (GDA) risk preferences that can overweight lower-tail outcomes relative to expected utility. We show in an endowment economy that recursive utility with GDA risk preferences generates effective risk aversion that is countercyclical. This feature comes from endogenous variation in the probability of disappointment in the representative agent's intertemporal consumption-saving problem that underlies the asset pricing model. The variation in effective risk aversion produces a large equity premium and a risk-free rate that is procyclical and has low volatility in an economy with a simple autoregressive endowment-growth process.

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• Van BINSBERGEN, J. H., & KOIJEN, R. S. J. (2010). Predictive Regressions: A Present-Value Approach. The Journal of Finance, 65, 1439–1471.

  ABSTRACT We propose a latent variables approach within a present-value model to estimate the expected returns and expected dividend growth rates of the aggregate stock market. This approach aggregates information contained in the history of price-dividend ratios and dividend growth rates to predict future returns and dividend growth rates. We find that returns and dividend growth rates are predictable with?R2?values ranging from 8.2% to 8.9% for returns and 13.9% to 31.6% for dividend growth rates. Both expected returns and expected dividend growth rates have a persistent component, but expected returns are more persistent than expected dividend growth rates.

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• BENMELECH, E., & MOSKOWITZ, T. J. (2010). The Political Economy of Financial Regulation: Evidence from U.S. State Usury Laws in the 19th Century. The Journal of Finance, 65, 1029–1073.

  ABSTRACT Financial regulation was as hotly debated a political issue in the 19th century as it is today. We study the political economy of state usury laws in 19th century America. Exploiting the wide variation in regulation, enforcement, and economic conditions across states and time, we find that usury laws when binding reduce credit and economic activity, especially for smaller firms. We examine the motives of regulation and find that usury laws coincide with other economic and political policies favoring wealthy political incumbents, particularly when they have more voting power. The evidence suggests financial regulation is driven by private interests capturing rents from others rather than public interests protecting the underserved.

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• BERK, J. B., STANTON, R., & ZECHNER, J. (2010). Human Capital, Bankruptcy, and Capital Structure. The Journal of Finance, 65, 891–926.

  ABSTRACT We derive the optimal labor contract for a levered firm in an economy with perfectly competitive capital and labor markets. Employees become entrenched under this contract and so face large human costs of bankruptcy. The firm's optimal capital structure therefore depends on the trade-off between these human costs and the tax benefits of debt. Optimal debt levels consistent with those observed in practice emerge without relying on frictions such as moral hazard or asymmetric information. Consistent with empirical evidence, persistent idiosyncratic differences in leverage across firms also result. In addition, wages should have explanatory power for firm leverage.

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