Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the relation between financial analysts’ ratings of firms’ disclosure …/methodology/approach – Measure of the disclosure policy is based on financial analysts’ ratings of the quality of firms’ annual reports, quarterly … regressions of bid-ask spreads on disclosure policy ratings and controls for trading volume, price volatility, and share price …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the relation between financial analysts’ ratings of firms’ disclosure …/methodology/approach – Measure of the disclosure policy is based on financial analysts’ ratings of the quality of firms’ annual reports, quarterly … regressions of bid‐ask spreads on disclosure policy ratings and controls for trading volume, price volatility, and share price …