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On Relations among Stock Price Behavior and Changes in the Capital Structure of the Firm

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2009

A. James Boness ,
Andrew H. Chen  and
Som Jatusipitak
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There now exists a formidable documentation of the hypothesis that time series of common stock prices follow random walks. Taking these empirical demonstrations as convincing, additional work has largely fallen into two classes: (a) direct theorizing and testing of the exact nature of the random price-generating process; and (b) theorizing and testing of the implications of random walks in common stock price for the values of related securities such as warrants and convertibles.

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Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , September 1972 , pp. 1967 - 1982
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Copyright © School of Business Administration, University of Washington 1972

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