Advances in Financial Economics

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.