Fund trades and prices vary systematically with the quarterly reporting cycle. Funds are more likely to complete the building of a position at quarter-end, which is when most funds report positions to investors, and begin building new positions afterwards. While some of the observed shift in...

How does a firm's disclosure policy depend on its choice of financing? In this paper, I study a firm that finances a project with uncertain payoffs and jointly chooses its disclosure policy and the security issued. I show that it is optimal to truthfully reveal whether the project's payoffs are...

In this paper, we investigate the stock price behaviour of newly listed companies on the stock exchange market with an extremely high level of information asymmetry. We show a unique mechanism of how informed investors influence the stock prices before entering the market to consume abnormal...

The study examines how the lack of comparable public peers (“informational uniqueness”) is related to a firm's disclosure policy and information environment. Having less information spillover from other public firms may present an information deficiency if it is not compensated by other...

This paper presents an optimal portfolio algorithm under equilibrium conditions to evaluate future cash flows. The Algorithm employs expected return-risk approximation of utility function and bivariate distribution of cash flows of an investment and returns on market portfolios. The proposed...