We derive the theoretical result that the existence of a secondary market increases primary market liquidity in the form of lower effective spreads and higher issuance quantities. The same intuition suggests a shorter funding time. Using intraday peer-to-peer issuance data, we find that the...

Chinese Interbank Foreign Exchange trading was originally conducted through a centralized, anonymous limit order book (LOB). We determine the impact of the introduction of a parallel decentralized over-the-counter (OTC) market. We find that: (1) most trading migrated to the OTC, (2) the LOB...

This paper examines intraday price discovery in three closely-related U.S. markets: stocks, Over-The-Counter (OTC) corporate bonds, and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) electronically-traded corporate bonds. We calculate the Hasbrouck (1995) information shares of these three markets over five...

We analyze trading behavior and information acquisition in a competitive rational expectations model in which different information signals get reflected in value at different points in time (in the short-term and in the long-term). If investors are sufficiently risk averse, we obtain a unique...

I examine the acceptance time (i.e., the time that eventually-published articles take from first-round submission to final-round acceptance) and the online/print publication times (i.e., the time that eventually-published articles take from first-round submission to online/print publication) of...

Performance share plans are an increasingly important component of executive compensation. They are equity-based, long-term incentive plans where the number of shares to be awarded is a quasi-linear function of a performance result over a fixed time period. We derive closed-form formulas for the...

Do fast, competitive markets yield liquidity measurement problems when using the popular Monthly Trade and Quote (MTAQ) database? Yes. MTAQ yields distorted measures of spreads, trade location, and price impact compared with the expensive Daily Trade and Quote (DTAQ) database. These problems are...

This paper provides evidence that stock traders focus on round numbers as cognitive reference points for value. Using a random sample of more than 100 million stock transactions, we find excess buying (selling) by liquidity demanders at all price points one penny below (above) round numbers....

Liquidity plays an important role in global research. We identify high quality liquidity proxies based on low-frequency (daily) data, which provide 1,000X to 10,000X computational savings compared to computing high-frequency (intraday) liquidity measures. We find that: (1) Closing Percent Quoted...