This paper empirically examines the hypothesis that diffusion of information is not uniform across all sectors of a market. Large industries or industries where trading volume is substantially larger attract attention of a large number of investors who in turn make these industries...

The slow diffusion of information hypothesis has emerged as a more convincing explanation for lead-lag patterns in assets returns compared to traditional explanations such as non-synchronous or thin trading, liquidity factor, or size factor, etc. We provide further support to slow diffusion of...

This paper empirically examines the hypothesis that diffusion of information is not uniform across all industries of a stock market. Large industries or industries where trading volume is substantially high attract attention of a large number of investors who in turn make these industries...