The 2016 Tick Size Pilot Program is an exogenous shock that incentivized fundamental investors to become more informed by acquiring fundamental firm information. Building on these studies, we examine the effect of the pilot program on earnings guidance. We find that the treatment firms...

Employing the SEC Tick Size Pilot Program that increases the minimum trading unit of a set of randomly selected small-capitalization stocks, we examine whether and how an exogenous change in stock liquidity affects corporate voluntary disclosure. Using difference-in-differences analyses with...