The finance industry has grown. Financial markets have become more liquid. Information technology has improved. But have prices become more informative? Using stock and bond prices to forecast earnings, we find that the information content of market prices has not increased since 1960. The...

Die Beziehung zwischen Rechnungslegung und Kapitalmarkt ist in den letzten Jahren durch mehrere Entwicklungen stark beeinflusst worden. So ruft die Globalisierung der Kapitalmärkte bei den Anlegern ein Bedürfnis nach international vergleichbaren Rechnungslegungsinformationen hervor. Zugleich...

In a complete market for short-lived assets, we investigate long run wealth-driven selection on a general class of investment rules that depend on endogenously determined current and past prices. We find that market instability, leading to asset mis-pricing and informational efficiencies, is a...