In Japan, the newspapers with the greatest daily circulation offer both morning and evening editions in most of their distribution areas. Their prices per page of actual content are different for morning-and-evening subscribers than for morning-only subscribers. So the subscription price...

In Japan, the newspapers with the greatest daily circulation offer both morning and evening editions in most of their distribution areas. Their prices per page of actual content are different for morning-and-evening subscribers than for morning-only subscribers. So the subscription price...

I analyze a manager's decision to disclose private information when the stock market is a source of information for corporate investment-making. A manager with long-term incentives discloses her private information only if it crowds-in informed trading and increases the manager's ability to...

Large institutional investors dominate asset ownership worldwide, raising questions about their impact on the functioning and efficiency of financial markets. In this paper, we develop a general equilibrium theory to study the distributional effects of asset ownership for price informativeness...

Fund trades and prices vary systematically with the quarterly reporting cycle. Funds are more likely to complete the building of a position at quarter-end, which is when most funds report positions to investors, and begin building new positions afterwards. While some of the observed shift in...

I show that endogenous investor inattention – investors allocating cognitive resources based on incentives – can explain substantial price underreaction to public information in corporate bond and stock markets. The key evidence is that prices under- react less to more payoff-relevant risks....

We investigate the co-movement of stock prices and intrinsic value estimates focusing on the estimation of risk. We apply risk measurements based on a) market and b) accounting data. We find that price and value co-move from 1983 to 2014 on an index-level using accounting-based risk measurement...

The asset ownership structure in financial markets worldwide is dominated by large institutional investors. Relative to households, institutional investors own a larger fraction of assets, have a more concentrated distribution of ownership, and have significant active and passive components. We...