Information disclosure is an essential component of regulation in financial markets. In this article, we provide a cohesive analytical framework to review a few key channels through which disclosure in financial markets affects market quality, information production, efficiency of real...

We surveyed all Chinese public firms in 2019 and 2022 to examine the real effects of financial markets. The response rates were close to 100%. More than 90% of firms reported that they care about the stock market for the purposes of learning information to guide real investment decisions and of...

I study voluntary disclosure of oligopoly firms when they learn information from asset prices. By disclosing information, a firm incurs a cost of losing competitive advantage to its rivals but benefits from learning from a more informative asset market. Adding a financial market helps the...