subject to a private information problem. The asset plays the role of a medium of exchange, but this role can be affected by … information, a set of experiments with adverse selection where the terminal value of notes are determined exogenously, and a set …

private information. This suggests that economists' inability to explain asset price movements is the result of either noise …

opinion, a finding different from the current literature that attempts to attribute option trading to information asymmetry …

We develop and test a frog-in-the-pan (FIP) hypothesis that predicts investors are less attentive to information … arriving continuously in small amounts than to information with the same cumulative stock price implications arriving in large … than infrequent dramatic changes and construct an information discreteness measure to capture the intensity of firm …

available information. Using a database of short sales combined with a database of news releases, we show that the well … valuable trading opportunities for short sellers who are skilled information processors …

We test a frog-in-the-pan (FIP) hypothesis that predicts investors are inattentive to information arriving continuously … infrequent dramatic changes. Consistent with the FIP hypothesis, we find that continuous information induces strong persistent … continuous information during their formation period to -2.07% for stocks with discrete information but similar cumulative …

available for borrowing, mutual funds acquire information about short selling, which they exploit for trading. Funds with … lower lending fees than passive funds, consistent with funds paying for the information with lower fees …