Financial Management

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Document Outline

• 18 Insider Trading Before New Issue Announcements
• 27 An Agency Perspective on Franchising
• 36 The Association Between Executive Stock Option Plan Changes and Managerial Decisiion Making
• 44 Share Repurchase Mechanisms: A Comparative Analysis of Efficacy, Shareholder Wealth, and Corporate Control Effects
• 60 The Imapct of the 1986 Tax Reform Act on Ex-Dividend Day Returns
• 71 Game Theory in Finance
• 95 The Japanese Cost of Finance: A Survey