The current SEC regulation section 13(f) allows financial institutions to delay the disclosure of their quarter-end stock holdings up to 45 days. Motivated by a recent regulatory debate about the appropriate length of delay for disclosures, I develop a model to examine a financial institution's...

I model the investors' costly information acquisition behaviours with strategic communication of asymmetric information in financial markets. I extend the dynamic insider trading model based on Kyle(Econometrica 53 (1985) 1315) to allow for costly, unobservable information acquisition, assuming...