Using a novel database on venue short sales and market design characteristics, we ask: Where do short sellers exploit their information advantage? Consistent with the prediction of Zhu (2014), we find that exchange short sales comprise a larger proportion of trading and are more informative...

Using detailed order handling data, we find that brokers who route more orders to affiliated Alternative Trading Systems (ATSs) are associated with lower execution quality (lower fill rates and higher implementation shortfall costs) for their customers. To separate clients' preference for ATSs...

Is the perception of risk, as outlined and defined by the regulatory and supervisory community, shared by private financial institutions? In this paper we assess a representative sample of recent publicly available risk perspectives and outlooks, and study similarities and differences. We find...

This paper examines the relationship between post-earnings announcement returns and different measures of volume at the earnings date. We find that post-event returns are strictly increasing in the component of volume that is unexplained by prior trading activity. We interpret unexplained volume...

We investigate the trading of corporate bonds on alternative trading system (ATS) platforms. We draw a key distinction between request-for-quote (RFQ) and electronic communication network (ECN) trading protocols, which balance investors' preference for immediacy and anonymity. Trades on ATS...

We examine the value of information available to investors through BrokerCheck: the most comprehensive source of information about brokers' professional background and regulatory history that helps investors make informed choices about which brokers to use. We do so by assessing the...

The Council of Institutional Investors is a group of public and private pension funds which collectively own over $800 billion in financial assets within the United States. The Council has provided a forum for these funds to coordinate and communicate with each other on a variety of matters...

This paper develops text-based measures of case strength and similarity using Statements of Claims filed in securities arbitration concerning investments in Puerto Rico municipal bonds to predict arbitration outcomes. We find that stronger customer claims and claims more similar to previous...

We study intraday market intermediation in an electronic market before and during a period of large and temporary selling pressure. On May 6, 2010, U.S. financial markets experienced a systemic intraday event - the Flash Crash - where a large automated selling program was rapidly executed in the...