This paper introduces a new information density indicator to provide a more comprehensive understanding of price reactions to news and, more specifically, to the sources of jumps in financial markets. Our information density indicator, which measures the abnormal amount of noisy “ticker”...

This study examines short selling in stocks of firms that reveal partial earnings-related information prior to their eventual earnings announcements (EA). By decomposing short selling into two components where the first corresponds to the final partial earnings disclosure and the second captures...

We develop a measure of how information events impact investors' perceptions of risk that is broadly applicable and simple to implement. We derive this measure from an option-pricing model where investors anticipate an announcement that simultaneously conveys information on the announcer's...

This study employs macroeconomic news announcements as proxy for new information arrivals and examines their impact on price discovery of Canadian cross-listed stocks. We compare the price discovery of 38 Canadian companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX) and the New York Stock...

We empirically explore the role of investor disagreement and news for various types of stock jumps, where the dynamic of stock returns is captured by a contagion model. Our disagreement measure is derived from more than 173 million tweets from a social media investing platform, StockTwits, for...

This paper aims to examine the reactions among institutional and individual investors when facing those listed firms' public announcements, and the effects of their trading on stock returns on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE). By employing a trivariate vector autoregressive (VAR) model, we find...

In this paper we provide evidence that the trading activity of small retail investors carries significant genuine information for the short term out-of-sample forecasting of foreign exchange rates. Our findings are based on a unique dataset of around 2000 retail investors from the OANDA FXTrade...

We examine whether financial analysts—sophisticated market participants—are subject to limited attention. We find that when analysts have another firm in their coverage portfolio announcing earnings on the same day as the sample firm (a “concurrent announcement”), they are less likely to...

This paper explores the information content of option implied volatility around the announcements and issue dates of Seasoned Equity Offerings (SEOs). The literature on SEOs indicates that announcements and issue dates contain important information about firms and therefore provide profitable...

This study examines the value relevance of the timing of earnings announcement dates relative to prior expectations. It shows that when firms advance their earnings announcements at least four days prior to expectations, the earnings surprises in those quarters tend to be positive and the...