臺大管理論叢 NTU Management Review VOL.29 NO.1

23 NTU Management Review Vol. 29 No. 1 Apr. 2019 Author Biography Yakov Amihud Yakov Amihud is Ira Rennert Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance at the Stern School of Business, New York University. His research includes the evaluation of corporate financial policies, mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, objectives of corporate managers, dividend policy, and law and finance. The focus of his research is the effects of liquidity of assets on their returns and values, and the design and evaluation of securities markets' trading methods. On these topics, Amihud has done consulting work for the NYSE, AMEX, CBOE, CBOT, and other securities markets. He has published more than seventy research articles in professional journals and in books, and edited and co-edited five books on topics such as LBOs, bank M&As, international finance, and securities market design. *Allaudeen Hameed Allaudeen Hameed is the Tang Peng Yeu Professor of Finance at the National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School. Professor Hameed’s research interests include return-based trading strategies, stock return co-movement, liquidity, role of financial analysts and international financial markets. His research work has been published in leading finance journals such as The Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, The Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and Review of Financial Studies . He is an Editor at the International Review of Finance and serves on editorial boards of the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Financial Management , and Pacific-Basin Finance Journal . Professor Hameed is also the recipient of several research awards. *E-mail: allaudeen@nus.edu.sg