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high cybersecurity risk. Reassuringly, the measure is higher in information-technology industries, correlates with …
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Whether proprietary traders provide or take liquidity, and how their behavior evolves over the business cycle and across stocks, remains at the center of an ongoing debate. Using a unique dataset from the NYSE, we document that proprietary traders concentrate their trades in large and liquid...
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Passively managed index funds now hold over 30% of U.S. equity fund assets; this shift raises fundamental questions about monitoring and governance. We show that, relative to active funds, index funds are less effective monitors: (a) they are less likely to vote against firm management on...
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Using the introduction of high-speed rail (HSR) as an exogenous shock to costs of information acquisition, we show that … reductions in information-acquisition costs lead to (i) a significant increase in information production, evidenced by a higher … information lead to these effects becoming more pronounced. Importantly, more information production is also associated with …
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, implies inefficient use of the information contained in analysts' outputs. Further, the post-earnings announcement drift (PEAD …
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Using a new dataset of corporate voting-rights from 1971 to 2015, we find that young dual-class firms trade at a premium and operate at least as efficiently as young single-class firms. As dual-class firms mature, their valuation declines, and they become less efficient in their margins,...
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recommendations, and (ii) change internet users information discovery by serving as substitutes for traditional information providers …. We evaluate some nontraditional data and find evidence suggesting that it contains valuable information or ``crowd wisdom …
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We examine the nature of information contained in insider trades prior to corporate events. Insiders' net buying … events. Overall, our results suggest that insider trades before corporate events contain information about changes both in …
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Using the introduction of high-speed rail as exogenous shocks to costs of information acquisition, we show that … reductions in information-acquisition costs lead to a significant increase in information production and improvement in output … that information production represents the channel through which acquisition costs affect output quality. We corroborate …
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