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Author : Anja Kunzmann
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Download or read book Empirical Essays in Corporate and Behavioral Finance written by Anja Kunzmann and published by . This book was released on 2018* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Camelia M. Kuhnen
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Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (768 download)
Download or read book Essays in Empirical and Behavioral Corporate Finance written by Camelia M. Kuhnen and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ulrich Wessels
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Essays on Empirical Asset Pricing and Behavioral Finance written by Ulrich Wessels and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : A. Szyszka
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 113736629X
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)
Download or read book Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets written by A. Szyszka and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-04 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behavioral Finance helps investors understand unusual asset prices and empirical observations originating out of capital markets. At its core, this field of study aids investors in navigating complex psychological trappings in market behavior and making smarter investment decisions. Behavioral Finance and Capital Markets reveals the main foundations underpinning neoclassical capital market and asset pricing theory, as filtered through the lens of behavioral finance. Szyszka presents and classifies many of the dynamic arguments being made in the current literature on the topic through the use of a new, ground-breaking methodology termed: the General Behavioral Asset Pricing Model (GBM). GBM describes how asset prices are influenced by various behavioral heuristics and how these prices deviate from fundamental values due to irrational behavior on the part of investors. The connection between psychological factors responsible for irrational behavior and market pricing anomalies is featured extensively throughout the text. Alternative explanations for various theoretical and empirical market puzzles - such as the 2008 U.S. financial crisis - are also discussed in a convincing and interesting manner. The book also provides interesting insights into behavioral aspects of corporate finance.
Author : Desiree-Jessica Pely
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Download or read book Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance and Behavioral Decision-making written by Desiree-Jessica Pely and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wei Gao
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Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (128 download)
Download or read book ESSAYS ON EMPIRICAL FINANCE written by Wei Gao and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation has two chapters. Each empirically examines one finance topic. The first chapter focuses on behavioral finance. The second chapter focuses on corporate finance. The first chapter is motivated by inconclusive theoretical prediction and lack of empirical evidence on the effect of mood on trading volume. This chapter exploits repeated natural experiments from the occurrence of severe smog in Beijing to test the inertia hypothesis (Bad moods cause inactivity and inertia and thus decrease in trading volume) against the mood regulation hypothesis (Bad moods increase trading volume because investors use trading as a way to combat bad moods). Intra-day analysis in this chapter shows that smog in Beijing causes trading volume of stocks headquartered in Beijing to increase, which contradicts the inertia hypothesis. The effect is more pronounced among large stocks, which rules out the possibility that investors seek gambling thrill during smog. Additionally, the effect is more pronounced among low risk stocks, which reflects the risk aversion associated with depression among investors and supports the mood regulation theory. The second chapter is motivated by the fact that initial public offerings (IPOs) transform private firms into publicly traded ones, thereby improving liquidity of their shares. Better liquidity increases firm value, which I call "liquidity value". I develop a model and hypothesize that issuers and IPO investors bargain over the liquidity value, resulting in a discounted offer price, i.e., IPO underpricing. Consistent with the model, I find that underpricing is positively related to the expected post-IPO liquidity of the issuer. The relation is stronger when firms are financed by venture capital investors, when the underwriter has more bargaining power, or when a smaller fraction of the firm is sold. I also explore two regulation changes as exogenous shocks to issuers' liquidity before and after IPO, respectively. With a difference-in-difference approach, I find that underpricing is more pronounced with better expected post-IPO liquidity or lower pre-IPO liquidity.
Author : Bradley J. Cannon
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Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Essays in Behavioral Finance and Corporate Finance written by Bradley J. Cannon and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three chapters that study how psychology impacts stock prices and how stock prices then impact corporate decisions. In the first chapter, I study whether a firm’s investment responds to the stock valuations of other firms headquartered nearby. I document a positive relation between a firm’s investment and the valuation of neighboring firms. This relation is stronger among financially constrained firms and is robust to controlling for the actual investment of other firms in the region. These findings are difficult to reconcile with traditional theories that link investment opportunities to firm valuations, but instead suggest that the ability of firms to raise external finance rises and falls with the stock valuations of other firms located nearby. Consistent with this explanation, I document that financially constrained firms issue more debt and receive more trade credit when neighboring firms have high stock valuations. In the second chapter, I test models of return extrapolation in the cross-section of stock returns. Return extrapolation is a biased belief structure that has received considerable attention because of its ability to generate prominent empirical findings in the asset pricing literature, while also being able to match investor beliefs. I document that return extrapolation is not uniform across firms but is instead more prevalent among firms that do not pay dividends (capital-gain firms). Specifically, analyst return expectations are positively related to past annual returns for capital-gain firms but show no relation among dividend-paying firms. I exploit this difference in extrapolative expectations to test asset pricing predictions stemming from models of return extrapolation. Consistent with return extrapolation models, I show that the value premium and long-term reversal are stronger among capital-gain firms. Momentum, however, is stronger among dividend-paying firms and, consequently, does not appear to be a result of return extrapolation. In the third chapter, co-authored with Hannes Mohrschladt, we test whether reference prices impact how investors respond to news. When current prices are farther from a reference price, investors react more strongly to news. We first document that individual investors are more (less) likely to sell a stock following bad (good) news when the stock's trading price is farther from the investor's purchase price. Motivated by this micro-level evidence, we construct a stock-level measure to capture the distance between a stock's trading price and its purchase price for the average investor. We provide evidence that this distance from purchase price produces a substantial amount of cross-sectional variation in the degree to which stocks over- or underreact to news. Stocks trading farthest from their purchase price react more strongly to news than stocks trading near their purchase price. Consistent with relative overreaction, stocks trading farthest from their purchase price also exhibit greater return reversal following news days. We document that a cross-sectional strategy exploiting these return patterns earns a monthly alpha of 0.93%. These findings are distinct from alternative explanations related to size, illiquidity, and volatility. Our evidence instead suggests that reference prices have a meaningful impact on how investors respond to news.
Author : Christian Funke
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3834998141
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (349 download)
Download or read book Selected Essays in Empirical Asset Pricing written by Christian Funke and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christian Funke aims at developing a better understanding of a central asset pricing issue: the stock price discovery process in capital markets. Using U.S. capital market data, he investigates the importance of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) for stock prices and examines economic links between customer and supplier firms. The empirical investigations document return predictability and show that capital markets are not perfectly efficient.
Author : H. Kent Baker
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470499117
Total Pages : 773 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Behavioral Finance written by H. Kent Baker and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive guide to the growing field of behavioral finance This reliable resource provides a comprehensive view of behavioral finance and its psychological foundations, as well as its applications to finance. Comprising contributed chapters written by distinguished authors from some of the most influential firms and universities in the world, Behavioral Finance provides a synthesis of the most essential elements of this discipline, including psychological concepts and behavioral biases, the behavioral aspects of asset pricing, asset allocation, and market prices, as well as investor behavior, corporate managerial behavior, and social influences. Uses a structured approach to put behavioral finance in perspective Relies on recent research findings to provide guidance through the maze of theories and concepts Discusses the impact of sub-optimal financial decisions on the efficiency of capital markets, personal wealth, and the performance of corporations Behavioral finance has quickly become part of mainstream finance. If you need to gain a better understanding of this topic, look no further than this book.
Author : Tomas Hernan Reyes Torres
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Total Pages : 85 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Essays in Behavioral and Corporate Finance written by Tomas Hernan Reyes Torres and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 85 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines the factors that influence investors' attention to the stock market and the relationship that exists among attention and real output variables including stock returns, trading volume, and volatility. Traditional asset pricing models assume that information is effortlessly obtained and instantaneously incorporated into pricing. This assumption requires that investors devote sufficient attention to the asset, and ignores the existence of various channels through which public information is disseminated. In reality, attention is a scarce cognitive resource which is related to the effort that investors must expend to obtain information; the implications of this contingency of attention on these limitations have been remarkably under-researched in the past. In the first chapter of this study, I familiarize readers with Google Trends data and explain why such data is a better source to proxy for attention than the measures previously used in the literature. Next, utilizing this data, I describe how to measure investors' attention with regard to M\&A announcements, and show that attention is not instantaneous with the release of information, but is, instead, spread over a period surrounding the announcement. Retail investors pay attention and demand information about a firm as the announcement date approaches, during the announcement, and for days afterward. Finally, I present three aggregate measures of attention in the stock market, which are also based on search volume from Google. After constructing these measures, I study how they correlate with, but differ from, existing proxies of attention. In the second chapter, I consider whether limited attention explains the announcement effect bias found in the M\&A literature concerning merger and acquisition announcements. More specifically, I ask: How does variation in investors' attention affect the capital market response to M\&A announcements? To answer this question I rely on the measure for attention to M\&A announcements described in the previous chapter and find that high abnormal attention on the day of announcement predicts high adjusted abnormal returns the day after. This effect is strongest among firms with high standard deviations and betas, and it partially reverses over the following months. The third chapter argues that negative stock market performance attracts more attention from retail investors than comparable positive performance. Specifically, I rely on the three aggregate measures of attention in the stock market to test and confirm the hypothesis that retail investors pay more attention to negative rather than positive extreme returns. Empirical results strongly support that with respect to stock returns investors display this negativity bias in attention allocation. Across all specifications, lagged negative extreme returns are stronger predictors than positive extreme returns of high attention at the stock and market level. I rule out that negative returns are stronger simply because they are more unusual or because negative and positive returns are not symmetrical events to stockholders.
Author : Hui Zheng
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Essays in Behavioral Corporate Finance written by Hui Zheng and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation explores the extent to which managerial overconfidence affects corporate decisions. This analysis includes three essays, which address a wide range of corporate decisions including financing, investment, acquisition, innovation, liquidity management and advertising decisions. The first essay introduces a fine-tuned test of the relationship between managerial overconfidence and corporate decisions by taking the chief financial officer (CFO) overconfidence effect into account. Ex-ante, I identify financial policies and non-financial policies such as investment, innovation and acquisition as the primary managerial duties of CFOs and chief executive officers (CEOs) respectively. I construct overconfidence measures for both CEOs and CFOs and test the impact of CEO and CFO overconfidence, both on financial decisions and on nonfinancial decisions. Based on a sample of 1,173 S & P 1500 firms, I find that financial policies are primarily affected by CFO overconfidence while only CEO overconfidence affects nonfinancial decisions. My findings demonstrate that managerial biases affect corporate decisions and managerial duties shape the ways in which top managers influence corporate policies. The second essay investigates how overconfident CEOs allocate resources toward innovation activities. It argues that overconfident CEOs tend to have greater innovation input. To finance innovation, they save more cash out of the cash flow and spend more on innovation when the cash flow is high. Results from an empirical analysis of 1,015 S & P 1500 firms support this argument. Moreover, based on a series of financial constraint measurements, the effect of CEO overconfidence on liquidity management is found to be more pronounced in financially constrained firms and in highly innovative firms, but not in firms without financial constraints. With regards to innovation performance, overconfident CEOs tend to have more patents, but the overall quality of their patents is not significantly better than that of rational CEOs. The third essay introduces a simple model of firm advertising behavior in monopolistic competition industries and applies it to the situation of managerial overconfidence. The model shows that the optimal advertising to sales ratio is determined by both firm advertising competency and consumer preference. Overconfident CEOs are more willing to use advertising as a means to convey the quality of their firms and products. Such overestimation of the effects of advertising by overconfident CEOs will result in overspending on advertising. When financially constrained, an overconfident CEO's tendency to overspend will be curbed to some extent, but his amount of advertising will increase with cash flows. An empirical analysis of 654 S & P 1500 firms supports these predictions. The distorted effect of managerial overconfidence is more prominent when firms are financially constrained and when the overconfidence measure is continuous.
Author : George M. Frankfurter
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812770003
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Theory and Reality in Financial Economics written by George M. Frankfurter and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current literature on financial economics is dominated by neoclassical dogma and, supposedly, the notion of value-neutrality. However, the failure of neoclassical economics to deal with real financial phenomena suggests that this might be too simplistic of an approach. This book consists of a collection of essays dealing with financial markets'' imperfections, and the inability of neoclassical economics to deal with such imperfections. Its central argument is that financial economics, as based on the tenets of neoclassical economics, cannot answer or solve the real-life problems that people face. It also shows the direct relationship between economics and politics OCo something that is usually denied in academic models, given that science is supposed to be value-neutral. In this thought-provoking and avant-garde book, the author not only exposes what has gone wrong, but also suggests reforms to both the academic and the political-economic systems that might help make markets fair rather than efficient. Drawing on interdisciplinary fields, this book will appeal to readers who are interested in finance, economics, business, the political economy and philosophy. Sample Chapter(s). Foreword (37 KB). Chapter 1: Method and Methodology (146 KB). Contents: Method and Methodology; What is All Efficiency?; Still Autistic Finance; The Young Finance Faculty''s Guide to Publishing; Prolific Authors in Finance; For-Profit Education: An Idea That Should be Put to Rest?; Weep Not for Microsoft: Monopoly''s Fatal Exception; The Socio-Economics of Scandals; Desperately Seeking Toto; And Now for Something Entirely Different; After the Ball; Capitalism or Industrial Fiefdom; The Theory of Fair Markets (TFM): Toward a New Finance Paradigm. Readership: Graduate students of finance; students of economics, economic methodology and philosophy of science."
Author : Chang Jie Hu
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Book Rating : 4.:/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Three Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance written by Chang Jie Hu and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The core of the thesis includes three essays in empirical corporate finance. The first essay examines the relation between mandatory disclosure behavior and legal accountability. In this study, we treat the enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) in 2002 as a regulatory event that increases the legal accountability of top executives and compute the filing tones for a large sample of Forms 10-Q and 10-K filings between 1994 and 2017 using textual analysis. We document that the changes in filing tones contain substantial information that is reflected promptly in the capital market. We also show that a structural break exists in the distribution of filing tones around SOX. Firms use a more negative tone in their quarterly mandatory disclosure after SOX. Interestingly, investors exhibit a stronger reaction to per unit change of filing tones during the post-SOX era and we show that changes in investors’ reactions are not merely driven by the systematic changes in tone distribution after SOX. We also document that filing tones are determined by common performance measures, but such relation is weakened after SOX. The second essay studies the impact of the exit of Venture Capitalists (VCs) on innovation by comparing VC backed IPO firms with the non-VC backed. VCs play a significant role in bringing new ventures public by providing financing and consistent monitoring. Prior literature has established mostly a positive correlation between VCs and firm innovation because VCs may preselect more innovative firms to begin with. This study hopes to provide evidence on causal inference with reasonable assumptions from a “reverse treatment” perspective by examining the change in innovation when VCs exit. We treat the initial public offering (IPO) as a proxy for VC’s exit since most VCs exit shortly after IPO due to their limited investment horizon. Using a difference-in-differences framework, we find that VC-backed firms experience a greater drop in Research and Development (R&D) intensity after IPO-exits when compared to those non-VC backed. The third essay revisits the long-debated relation between market competition and firm innovation. While traditionally competition is measured at the industry level with historical data, our study utilizes two new text-based measures of competitive threats developed by Hoberg et al. (2014) and Li et al. (2013) which are both firm-specific and forward-looking. We address the potential endogeneity concerns using instrumental variables along with the propensity score matching of firms that experience an exogenous shock from import competition with those that do not. Our results show that an increase in competition unambiguously promotes firm innovation"--
Author : Jie Lu
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (559 download)
Download or read book Essays on Behavioral Finance and Market Microstructure written by Jie Lu and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is comprised of three essays that study behavioral finance and market microstructure. The first essay models a game of individual day traders' interactions in a stock trading chat room and empirically tests the model's conclusions. Trading behaviors are analyzed in an Internet chat room with free entry but secure identity, and traders' interactions are modeled as a dynamic game with informed traders, momentum traders, arbitragers and noise traders. Three empirical predictions are generated in the model's equilibrium. The unique data set consists of stock trading chat room posts of more than 1,000 individual semi-professional day traders and their interactions and transactions are investigated in a time series. All the three predictions from the model's equilibrium are affirmed by empirical tests. The second essay assesses the effects of the entire limit order book and analyzes the market impacts of the quotes in the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchange in China, where the stock market has a pure order-driven trading mechanism without market makers. Firstly, in the empirical modeling the limit order books, the structural vector autoregressive model of Hasbrouck (1991) is used and extended to incorporate more information beyond the inside quotes. Secondly, the market impact of stocks is also analyzed cross sectionally with market capitalization, tick frequency, turnover, average price, etc. Finally, the market impacts and order imbalance of small trades are distinguished. Small trades, usually linked with individual investors, have proportionally small market impact. Besides, the volume-weighted daily order imbalances of small trades and next-day's and contemporaneous daily returns are negatively related with each other. This is in accordance with the 'pain theory' of the individual traders. The third essay investigates microstructure characteristics of the Credit Default Swap (CDS) market. During the sample period, April 2006 -- March 2008, CDS are traded on the over-the-counter (OTC) market, through brokers' voice-based or electronic-based systems. The study analyzes CDS spread, trade-to-quote ratio, bid-ask spread, the frequency that the orders fall between the quotes, and the relationship between the order imbalance and the daily change of CDS spread.
Author : Lingbo Shen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789056686833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (868 download)
Download or read book Essays on Behavioral Finance and Corporate Finance written by Lingbo Shen and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xing Huang
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Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Essays in Behavioral Finance written by Xing Huang and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation contains three essays in behavioral finance. It explores investors' (non-standard) behaviors and their impacts on market efficiency and market valuations. I strive to empirically characterize how market participants behave, and to identify how these behaviors can improve our understanding of the financial market. The first chapter studies the impact of prior investment experience in an industry on the subsequent purchase of new stocks in the same industry. Using trading records data for households at a large discount broker from 1991 to 1996, I establish that the experience of positive excess returns in a given industry increases the probability of purchasing similar stocks in that industry relative to other industries. This result is robust to industry momentum, wealth effects, and investor heterogeneity. The effect decays when the experience is further in the past. Furthermore, I find that investor sophistication mitigates this experience effect. These results are consistent with mechanisms where investors put more weight on their own experience than on other available historical information when updating the beliefs about an industry's future return. The results are also consistent with investors learning about their stock-picking ability in an industry from their experienced outcomes. In the second chapter, I ask the question: do investors slow to incorporate return-relevant information if it reflects firms' operations abroad? Using the corresponding industry return in the foreign countries, I show that foreign operations information is slowly incorporated into stock prices. A trading strategy exploiting the foreign operations information of multinational firms generates a monthly abnormal return of approximately $0.80$ percentage points, controlling for risk-based factors. The return predictability is not driven by U.S. industry momentum, global industry momentum or foreign country-specific industry momentum. The third chapter further explores the underlying mechanism to explain the market under-reaction to foreign information identified in the second chapter. The return predictability becomes more pronounced for smaller firms and firms with less analyst coverage, lower institutional holdings, lower fraction of foreign operations and more complicated international operations structure. I also find that stock prices respond more to foreign operations information during the month of a quarterly earnings announcement or when there is more foreign news relative to domestic news appearing in the media. In addition, information about firms' operations in Asia is delayed more than information about operations in Europe and English-speaking countries. These results are consistent with the hypothesis that news about multinational firms' foreign operations diffuses gradually, indicating investors' limited attention and processing capacity for foreign information.
Author : Shashwat Alok
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Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (859 download)
Download or read book Essays in Empirical Corporate Finance written by Shashwat Alok and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation evaluates the role of political incentives, conglomeration and bankruptcy on firm performance and executive compensation. The first analyzes the role of political influence on the investment behavior of firms with majority government stake. The second chapter explores the impact of various externalities that may arise in multi-divisional firm on managerial compensation. In the third chapter, we investigate the impact of relative bargaining power of firms over creditors during bankruptcy on ex-post firm performance, once the firm emerges out of bankruptcy. Political interference has long been considered a major source of inefficiency in state-owned enterprises. However, empirical evidence regarding the impact of political influence on non- financial firms has been limited. We evaluate the influence of political factors on corporate investment decisions using a unique database of new investment projects announced in India, matched with electoral data at the district level for the period of 1995-2009. We find that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) announce a greater number of projects during election years, especially in politically competitive districts. The number of investments announced by central (state) government firms in election years is on average 36% (58%) greater in districts in which the ruling party won or lost the previous election by a narrow margin (
