Informational advantages of specialists relative to households lead to disagreement between the two in an intermediated market. The additional information is, however, costly to the specialists, making it rational for specialists to limit the accuracy of the signals they observe. I show that...

This paper considers the problem of information acquisition in an intermediated market, where the specialists have access to superior technology for acquiring information. These informational advantages of specialists relative to households lead to disagreement between the two groups, changing...

Abstract This paper studies information-based manipulation in a setting where sophisticated investors have access to an independent source of information. It is shown that investors' access to independent information is crucial to support truthful announcements by the manipulator. However, even...

We show that mutual funds use information acquired by participating in the equity lending market to make portfolio allocation decisions. Using data from German mutual funds on their stock-level lending decisions, we find that funds lending shares are more likely to exit positions relative both...

We model the role of dealers in information diffusion in over-the-counter (OTC) markets. A dealer maintains relationships with a network of both informed customers who trade to profit from private information pertaining to asset values and risk-averse liquidity customers who trade to meet...

We analyze a model where different traders are informed of different fundamentals that affect the security value. We identify a source for strategic complementarities in trading and information acquisition: The aggressive trading on information about one fundamental reduces the uncertainty in...

We study how dynamic research affects information acquisition in financial markets. In our strategic trading model, the trader performs costly research to generate private information but does not always succeed. Optimal research activity responds to market conditions and generates novel...

We propose a simple measure of investor sophistication based on financial statement experience derived from publicly available EDGAR log data about accounting information acquisition activity. This approach allows us to provide unique empirical evidence for the existence of attention induced...

This paper investigates the strategic interaction of information acquisition, information-based dynamic trading, and noise trading patterns, as well as its significant implications on market equilibrium outcomes. We consider a market where the strategic trader can dynamically acquire costly...

Using microdata on stock-level lending positions from German mutual funds, we show that active funds use the equity lending market to obtain information about short sale demand. Funds reduce long positions in response to these demand signals, which allows fund managers to front-run public...