Abstract
For non-US stocks of firms in the G7 countries, we empirically test the new issues puzzle – stocks of firms that issue new equity are, on average, very poor investments relative to various benchmarks – by market capitalization. Only for the United Kingdom do we find evidence for a significantly negative relation between net share issues and expected returns for larger capitalization stocks. There is some evidence for Japanese stocks. For the other four countries, a positive relation between net share issues and expected returns is observed.
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