We propose a direct measure of abnormal institutional investor attention (AIA) using news searching and news reading activity for specific stocks on Bloomberg terminals. AIA is highly correlated with institutional trading measures and related to, but different from, other investor attention...

Political news is known to be polarized, but standard explanations for polarization do not apply to financial news. Nevertheless, we find strong evidence of political polarization in the tone and coverage of corporate financial news. In particular, we find that the tone of corporate financial...

We provide new empirical evidence on the implications of public information arrival for investors' beliefs, using a daily measure of dispersion (uncertainty) of beliefs about firm underlying return distribution. Consistent with convergence in beliefs (less disagreement), the arrival of public...

We present evidence of a predictable drift in stock prices before the earnings announcements of firms that announce their earnings later than other firms in their industry. We form portfolios based on the returns of later announcers that are implied by the abnormal returns of earlier announcers...

We investigate the role of bank regulatory reports in the information environments of banks. We find that: (1) Call Reports, but not FR Y-9Cs, elicit economically significant stock price and volume reactions when they are publicly released despite the fact that Call Reports usually follow...