I document a shift in the stock market's reaction to employment news beginning early 2000s. Good employment news increases stock prices during expansions but has no effect during recessions. Overall, good employment news is good for stocks, a shift from the relationship documented in earlier...

This paper explores the relationship between earnings uncertainty and attention to firm-specific information. I use the percentage of uncertain words in 10-K or 10-Q filings as the primary measure of ex ante earnings uncertainty. I find that, the earnings releases of high uncertainty firms are...

Post-earnings announcement drift is stronger in firms that release earnings on days when market returns are higher in magnitude. This drift remains robust after controlling for previously documented factors such as Friday releases, the number of simultaneous releases, and price delay measure....

Prices of the highly liquid S&P500 exchange traded fund (SPY) and the E-mini future (ES) respond to macroeconomic announcement surprises within five milliseconds, with trading intensity increasing over a hundred-fold following the news release. However, profits from trading quickly are...

Motivated by the structural shift in the relation between inflation and the output gap, we investigate whether the information content of aggregate earnings for inflation and economic growth changes over time. We find that during 1970–2001, aggregate earnings are positively associated with...

I model the behavior of an arbitrageur who is exposed to time-varying liquidity. She is averse to liquidating her position in a bad liquidity state. Therefore, she limits her trading in stocks having high variation in liquidity. In equilibrium, these stocks experience severe mispricing due to...

This paper explores the relationship between variation in liquidity and mispricing. Mispricing is severe among stocks with high variation in liquidity. Among underpriced (overpriced) stocks, stocks with high variation in liquidity are more underpriced (overpriced). The mispricing is more...

During the last decade, the U.S. mutual fund industry experienced an unprecedented movement toward passive investments. We tie this shift to underperformance in active funds stemming from a reduction in alpha opportunities. As alpha opportunities decrease, performance predictors like Active...