The stocks of firms with poor accounting information quality (AIQ) comove least, as gauged by the correlation between returns on two stocks. Only undiversifiable risk is rewarded with a premium and the undiversifiable risk of a diversified stock portfolio increases with correlations between the...

We examine the short-duration premium using pre-scheduled economic, monetary policy, and earnings announcements. We provide high-frequency evidence that duration premia associated with revisions of economic growth and interest rate expectations are consistent with asset pricing models but cannot...