Applying the framework of conditional event studies shows that equity issues reveal managers‟private information about stock mispricing, which investors only partially discount into stockprices at the seasoned equity offering (SEO) announcement date. Negative abnormal returnsoccur as prices...

We decompose the structural estimate of the probability of informed trading, PIN, into components that capture informed trading on good and on bad news. We estimate these two components at quarterly intervals, and provide new evidence that they capture informed trading around earnings...