We study the relation between disclosure policy and market liquidity. Our tests examine how two key aspects of market liquidity, the effective bid-ask spread and quoted depth, relate to financial analysts' ratings of firms' disclosure policies. We introduce a method of combining order sizes and...

We find adverse-selection spread components increase sharply in the ratio of trade size to quoted depth, and spike when trade size equals quoted depth. We find two previously documented and prominent indicators of informed trading, raw trade size and high-trading-volume half-hours, offer almost...

This paper examines the association between block ownership and market liquidity. Blockholders are believed to have access to private, value relevant information via their role as monitors of firms' operations. Consistent with this, we find that firms with greater blockholder ownership, either...

We examine whether NYSE/AMEX depth quotes are related to the adverse-selection and inventory-holding-cost components of the spread. Consistent with theory predicting an inverse relation between depths and the risk of informed trading, we find that depth quotes are strongly inversely related to...

We find that firms with higher quality disclosures have lower effective bid-ask spreads and lower adverse selection spread components. In contrast, we also find that firms with higher quality disclosures have lower quoted depths, resulting in no unambiguous conclusion regarding market liquidity...

Existing research suggests adverse selection spread components are positively related to trade size, consistent with informed traders trading in larger sizes. However, if market makers use quoted depth to limit losses to informed traders, the size of a trade relative to the depth quoted at the...