This paper examines the risk premium associated with information shocks in equity markets. For all stocks traded on Borsa Istanbul between March 2005 and December 2020, we calculate information shocks as unanticipated information asymmetry by focusing on changes in the proportion of the...

Given a market with a price process S populated by heterogeneous traders with differential information, beliefs, and trading constraints, let the smallest information set containing all of the traders' information be denoted F. This market is defined to be informationally efficient (Fama [2])...

Given a market with a price process S populated by heterogeneous traders with differential information, beliefs, and trading constraints, let the smallest information set containing all of the traders' information be denoted F. This market is defined to be informationally efficient (Fama [2])...

We study the role of private information in the equity-lending market in a rational expectations model with endogenous loan fees. When all investors are privately informed, an increase in information precision reduces the fee by increasing trading aggressiveness and decreasing demand dispersion....