By constructing high-frequency measures of informed trading and news about technological competition, we provide evidence that the news about a firm's disadvantage in competition leads to informed selling. Such a pattern is weaker among firms in the industries with faster technology obsolescence...

Illiquidity measures appear to be related to monthly realized returns but do they impact long-run costs of capital (CoC) for firms? Using U.S. data, we find cross-sectional evidence that, controlling for market capitalization, the Amihud (2002) measure of illiquidity is negatively related to CoC...