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We propose that the volatility of order flow is a proxy for costs of information asymmetry, as order flow volatility … varies positively with parameters that also influence adverse selection costs of trading. Empirically, order flow volatility …. Levels of and shocks to order flow volatility are positively and significantly correlated with existing illiquidity proxies …
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. The theory offers untested empirical implications about volume, volatility, fundamental/price ratios, and mean returns …
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This paper sheds empirical light on whether sentiment affects the profitability of price momentum strategies. We hypothesize that news that contradicts investors' sentiment causes cognitive dissonance, which slows the diffusion of signals that oppose the direction of sentiment. This phenomenon...
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Feedback from stock prices to cash flows occurs because information revealed by firms' stock prices influences the actions of competitors. We explore the implications of feedback within a noisy rational expectations setting with publicly listed and private firms. In our setting, stock prices are...
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Regression regularization techniques show that deviations of accounting fundamentals from their preceding moving averages forecast drifts in equity market prices. The deviations-based predictability survives a comprehensive set of prominent anomalies. The profitability applies strongly to the...
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Movements in expected returns (ER) can cause a bias in measured autocorrelations, and the resulting spurious component is positive for infrequent regime shifts. We demonstrate this point analytically and investigate its empirical prevalence. In a key contribution, we use shifts in ex ante ER...
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We examine whether the recent regime of increased liquidity and trading activity is associated with attenuation of prominent equity return anomalies due to increased arbitrage. We find that the majority of the anomalies have attenuated, and the average returns from a portfolio strategy based on...
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We examine the announcement effects of consumer sentiment on US stock and stock futures markets. First, we find that the consumer sentiment announcement has valuable information content. Second, an asymmetric response is observed for “good” versus “bad” sentiment news. Specifically, when...
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Several studies on the expiration of IPO lockups document a strong negative reaction even though the unlock event is devoid of any informational content. The empirical finding has remained a conundrum. In this paper, we find that changes in liquidity can account for the observed stock price...
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Changing expected returns can induce spurious autocorrelation in returns. We show why this happens with simple examples and investigate its prevalence in actual equity data. In a key contribution, we use shifts in ex ante expected return estimates from options prices, factor models, and...
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