We analyze contemporaneous and predictive relations between debt ratings and measures of equity market liquidity, and find that common measures of adverse selection, which reflect a portion of the uncertainty about future firm value, are larger when debt ratings are poorer. This relation holds...

New York Stock Exchange specialists disseminate information to market participants by displaying price schedules consisting of quoted prices and depths for both the bid and the ask sides of the market. This paper examines how specialists revise these posted price schedules in response to changes...

We analyze contemporaneous and predictive relations between credit ratings and measures of equity market liquidity and find that common measures of adverse selection, which reflect a portion of the uncertainty about future firm value, are larger when credit ratings are poorer. We also show that...

The apparent conflict between the level of resources dedicated to technical analysis by practitioners and academic theories of market efficiency is a long-standing puzzle. We offer an alternative explanation for the value of technical analysis that is consistent with market efficiency -...