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lower during recession because regulators and investors focus more on downside risk and require conservative reporting by …
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We examine the association between carbon risk and future stock price crash risk and the moderating role of climate … change disclosures in this association using a sample of firms across the world. We find that carbon risk is positively … associated with future stock price crash risk, and firm-level climate-change disclosures attenuate the positive effect of carbon …
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I build a model of optimal managerial compensation where managers each have a privately observed propensity to manipulate short-term stock prices. It is shown that this informational asymmetry reverses some of the conventional wisdom about the relationship between reliance on short-term pay and...
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We study price efficiency and trading behavior in laboratory limit order markets with asymmetrically informed traders. Markets differ in the number of insiders present and in the subset of traders who receive information about the number of insiders present. We observe that price efficiency (i)...
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mortgage crisis. In addition, we examine stock market co-movement and risk exposure for ten industries in eight emerging …/developing stock markets. We obtain four key empirical findings. First, at industry level, we confirm that the equity risk premium in … premia. Third, we show that some industries are more exposed to global risk factors than others. Fourth, given the increasing …
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We investigate the formation of market prices in a new experimental setting involving multi-period call-auction asset markets with state-dependent fundamentals. We are particularly interested in two informational aspects: (1) the role of traders who are informed about the true state and/or (2)...
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The performance of analysts’ forecasts has attracted increasing attention in recent years. However, as yet, no empirical study has investigated the nexus between the analyst forecast dispersion (AFD) and excess returns surrounding stock market crashes in any depth. This paper attempts to fill...
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We compare the optimal trading strategy of an informed speculator when he can trade ahead of incoming news (is "fast"), versus when he cannot (is "slow"). We find that speed matters: the fast speculator's trades account for a larger fraction of trading volume, and are more correlated with...
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We investigate the formation of market prices in a new experimental setting involving multi-period call-auction asset markets with state-dependent fundamentals. We are particularly interested in two informational aspects: (1) the role of traders who are informed about the true state and/or (2)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010429127
The unmediated call auction is a useful trading mechanism to aggregate dispersed information. Its ability to incorporate information of a single informed insider, however, is less well understood. We analyse this question by presenting a simple call auction game where both auction prices and...
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