This volume, in the series "Advances in Financial Economics", discusses such topics as the global variation in financial ratios, trading costs of target firms around corporate takeovers, and economic activity measures in nonlinear asset pricing.
A direct test of dividend capture hypothesis, Jonathan M. Karpoff and Mazhar A. Siddigi; the global variation in financial ratios, Mark Hirschey and Paul K. Koch; trading costs of target firms around corporate takeovers, F. Douglas Foster and S. Viswanathan; joint venture synergy and information effects - an empirical investigation, R. Ravicharandran and J. Michael Pinegar; mean-variance as an approximation to expected unility maximization - semi ex-ante results, Louis H. Ederington; organizational form and investment horizons - evidence from the trading records of life insurance company equity portfolios, James S. Ang and Reinhold P. Lamb; economic activity measures in nonlinear asset pricing, Campbell R. Harvey.