This paper provides evidence that financial reporting quality (FRQ) influences the holding costs of trading strategies. While prior research has focused on the benefits of investment strategies based on poor FRQ (i.e., larger returns due to a greater amount of private information), we examine...

We examine how the media influences retail trade and market returns during the “quiet period” that follows a firm's IPO. We find that more media coverage during this period is associated with more purchases by retail investors and that such purchases are attention-driven, rather than...

We classify all institutional investors that file Form 13F over the period 1995-2013 as either “tax-sensitive” or “tax-insensitive” based on their trading behavior and portfolio characteristics. We examine tests of the effects of investor tax-sensitivity on portfolio rebalancing, price...

We provide a new measure of tax-sensitive institutional ownership. Using discriminant analysis and the characteristics of a sample of institutional investors that are unambiguously tax-sensitive or unambiguously tax-insensitive, we classify all institutions that file Form 13F with the SEC over...