The employment of IBES (Institutional Brokers’ Estimate System) analysts’ earnings forecast consensus in capital markets research literature presupposes normality in per period, per firm distributions of analysts’ earnings estimates on the basis that: (i) the central limit theorem holds...

We find that firms undergoing Seasoned Equity Offerings (SEOs) receive more favorable messages on financial social media platform, StockTwits, from 62 to 10 trading days prior their offerings and from 10 trading days following offerings to the expiration of lockup agreements, compared to matched...

We conjecture that a firm’s organization capital (OC) has a substitution effect on its executive pay-for-performance sensitivity (PPS) and empirically document a robust and significant substitution effect of OC on executive PPS. We use state-level unemployment insurance benefits as an...

The intra-day auction launched by the London Stock Exchange (LSE) on 21 March 2016 was designed as a mechanism to boost midday liquidity. During the auction time, Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs) as competitors of the LSE, continue their normal trading. We examine the midday liquidity...

While economic forecasting is ubiquitous within the industry, its role in the trading process has received little attention in the literature. We examine how economist forecasts are related to trading activity in the OTC treasury bond market at the participant level. Consistent with models of...

Internet message boards are often used to spread information in order to manipulate financial markets. Although this hypothesis is supported by many cases reported in the literature and in the media, the real impact of manipulation in online forums on financial markets remains an open question....

We examine whether Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) on financial social media serve as an alternative form of information intermediary. Amongst approximately two million high-frequency intraday StockTwits posts by 158,000 users, we find that posts by KOLs convey price-related information during...

How do managers comment on merger transactions? By analyzing initial public announcements of Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) between 1995-2020 and extracting the linguistic sentiment from statements made by acquirer and target firms, we provide new evidence on the information value of M&A...