Using data from the SEC's EDGAR server log, we examine the consumption of financial information in filings from 2003 through 2012. The EDGAR filings represent a first-source database for investors doing fundamental research on stock valuations. The magnitude of daily EDGAR requests for 10-Ks is...

Most financial security trading venues prioritize competing liquidity providers with price-time priority; entities displaying the best-priced limit order earliest trade with the next opposite-sided liquidity-demanding order. The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) rule putting traders “on parity”...

In business research, firm size is both ubiquitous and readily measured. In contrast, complexity, another firm-related construct, is frequently relevant, but difficult to measure and not well defined. As a result, complexity is seldom incorporated in empirical designs. Measures such as the...

We examine the occurrence of ethics-related terms in 10-K annual reports over 1994-2006 and offer empirical observations on the conceptual framework of Erhard, Jensen, and Zaffron (2007). We use a pre-Sarbanes-Oxley sample subset to compare the occurrence of ethics-related terms in our 10-K data...

We create a database of company codes of ethics from firms listed on the Standard amp; Poor's 500 Index and, separately, a sample of small firms. The SEC believes that ldquo;ethics codes do, and should, vary from company to company.rdquo; Using textual analysis techniques, we measure the extent...