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

We develop a measure of investor disagreement about the probability distribution of future returns on the market portfolio. The measure, which depends on the distribution across strike prices of open interest in index options, is derived by inverting the optimal portfolio decision of an investor...