How do financial markets price new information? This paper analyzes price setting at the intersection of private and … public information, by testing whether and how the reaction of financial markets to public signals depends on the relative … importance of private information in agents’ information sets at a given point in time. It studies the reaction of UK short …

models containing news shocks. This paper shows how to formally evaluate the information content of observed variables with …

We develop a new theory of information production during credit booms. In our model, entrepreneurs need credit to … themselves from such diversion in two ways: collateralization and costly screening, which generates durable information about … accumulates physical capital but depletes information about investment projects. As a result, collateral-driven booms end in deep …