With the adoption of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD), market behavior around earnings releases displays no significant change in return volatility (after controlling for decimalization of stock trading) but significant increases in trading volume due to difference in opinion. Analyst...

Miller's hypothesis posits that divergence of opinion can lead to asset overvaluation and subsequent long-term underperformance in markets (such as initial public offerings [IPOs]) with restricted short-selling. Consistent with this hypothesis, we find that early-market return volatility, a...

Does more leverage always worsen the debt agency problem? This paper presents a unified analysis that accounts for both risk-shifting and under-investment debt agency problems. For firms with positive marginal volatility of investment (defined as the change in cash flow volatility corresponding...

We examine stock market behavior around earnings announcements in three countries with different degrees of government involvement with corporations. We find evidence consistent with insider trading in shares of politically connected Indonesian companies. We find little comparable evidence for...