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We study conference calls as a voluntary disclosure channel and create a proxy for the time horizon that senior … executives emphasize in their communications. We find that our measure of disclosure time horizon is associated with capital …. Overall, the results show that the time horizon of conference call narratives can be informative about managers' myopic …
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In present study, I explore intraday behavior of stock prices. In particular, I try to shed light on the dynamics of stock price reversals and namely, on the short-term character the latter may possess. For each of the stocks currently making up the Dow Jones Industrial Index, I calculate...
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This paper investigates whether corporate insiders trade when asymmetric information is high, using data on U.S. corporate insider transactions between 1986 and 2012. The key innovation of this paper is our proxy for asymmetric information relivol which measures deviations of idiosyncratic...
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This study examines the impact of corporate news announcements released overnight on price discovery during the pre-opening period in the Australian Securities Exchange. Our results suggest that the presence of these announcements increases the efficiency of indicative opening prices and that...
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discovery using a structural model with time-varying parameters that can be estimated with state space techniques. An …
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The temporal relation between stock index and Index futures has been and continues to be of interest of regulators, academicians and practitioners alike for a number of reasons such as market efficiency volatility and arbitrage. In perfectly efficient markets profitable arbitrage should not...
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This paper investigates the direction of information flow between world stock markets during the recent financial crisis by conducting Granger causality tests in a three variables system. We employ daily rates of return for three representative stock market indices: S&P 500 for the US, BET-C for...
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) stock market dynamic interactions do not increase at the time of the release of economic news; (vi) foreign investors react …) contemporaneous correlation between futures returns changes at the time of macroeconomic releases …
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Recent literature suggests that trading by institutional investors may affect the first and second moments of returns. Elaborating on this intuition, we conjecture that arbitrageurs can propagate liquidity shocks between related markets. The paper provides evidence in this direction by studying...
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We examine whether there is contagion from the U.S. stock market to six Central and Eastern European stock markets. We use a novel measure of contagion that examines whether volatility shocks in the U.S. stock market coupled with negative returns are followed by higher co-exceedance between U.S....
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