In this paper, we build on a rational expectation model to study the economic consequences of a firm's choice of disclosure audience in a market with heterogenous traders in terms of information processing abilities. Through costly expertise acquisition, some traders become sophisticated and can...

We study the effects of mandatory disclosure on competitive interactions in the setting of oil & gas (O&G) reserve disclosures by North American public firms. We document that reserve disclosures inform competitors: when one firm announces larger increases in O&G reserves, competitors experience...

We exploit two regulatory shocks to examine the informational effects of tightening pre-existing mandatory disclosure rules. Canadian National Instrument 51-101 in 2003 and the United States rule “Modernization of Oil and Gas Reporting” in 2009 introduced quasi-identical amendments which...

Verrecchia (1983) investigates a manager's incentives for costly, discretionary disclosure of his information to risk-averse traders when the functional form of prices is exogenously specified. We extend Verrecchia (1983) by deriving the endogenously determined functional form of prices that...

We exploit two regulatory shocks to examine the informational effects of tightening pre-existing mandatory disclosure rules. Canadian National Instrument 51-101 in 2003 and the United States rule “Modernization of Oil and Gas Reporting” in 2009 introduced quasi-identical amendments which...