Optimal Market Timing

42 Pages Posted: 8 Nov 2006

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Dmitry Livdan

University of California, Berkeley

Erica X. N. Li

Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business

Lu Zhang

University of Rochester

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Date Written: January 2006

Abstract

We use a fully-specified neoclassical model augmented with costly external equity as a laboratory to study the relations between stock returns and equity financing decisions. Simulations show that the model can simultaneously and in many cases quantitatively reproduce: procyclical equity issuance; the negative relation between aggregate equity share and future stock market returns; long-term underperformance following equity issuance and the positive relation of its magnitude with the volume of issuance; the mean-reverting behavior in the operating performance of issuing firms; and the positive long-term stock price drift of firms distributing cash and its positive relation with book-to-market. We conclude that systematic mispricing seems unnecessary to generate the return-related evidence often interpreted as behavioral under reaction to market timing.

JEL Classification: G12, G32, G24

Suggested Citation

Livdan, Dmitry and Li, Erica X. N. and Zhang, Lu, Optimal Market Timing (January 2006). Sixteenth Annual Utah Winter Finance Conference, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=941763 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.941763

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