We show that the positive relation between firm-level cash-flow news and institutional ownership documented by Cohen (2002) is mostly driven by short-horizon investors. Short-term institutions trade to incorporate cash-flow related information into prices and potentially reduce under-reaction to...

We find that Treasury futures volume contains information about future economic and financial market conditions. Short-term and long-term volumes are economically different: A relatively higher volume in short-term (long-term) Treasury futures is counter-cyclical (pro-cyclical), preceding worse...

This paper reevaluates the cross-sectional effect of institutional ownership on idiosyncratic volatility by conditioning on institutions' investment horizon. Prior literature establishes a positive link between growing institutional ownership and idiosyncratic volatility. However, this effect...

We decompose the accrual premium and study its components in the debt and equity markets. We show that the importance of each accrual component depends on the sample and the type of market considered. The short-term accruals component is primarily observed in equity markets, among small and...