Electoral legislation varies across countries and within countries over time, and across different types of elections in terms of how it allows publication of intermediate election results including turnout and candidates' vote shares during an election day. Using a pivotal costly voting model...

I examine EU regulations requiring timely public disclosures of large short positions. I find that these regulations, despite increasing costs to short selling, improve information efficiency during the earnings announcement period. Furthermore, disclosures mandated by these regulations contain...

Corporate America is increasingly taking public stances on divisive sociopolitical issues via social media. Exploring S&P 1500 firms’ Twitter responses to the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement following George Floyd’s death in 2020, we first document a positive association between proxies...

This paper shows that mandating some firms to disclose more while leaving other firms disclosing voluntarily is less effective in improving and may even harm the overall information environment when firms' disclosures are endogenous. Although the regulated firms' increased disclosure directly...

How much information about financial institutions' balance sheets should regulators pass on to the market? To minimize the probability of inefficient default, the regulator optimally designs a disclosure regime that imposes transparency when the firm has weak fundamentals and opacity, otherwise....

We study information sharing between competing sellers in markets where consumers sample sellers sequentially. Sellers can disclose to their rival when they encounter a specific buyer. Providing this information, which we call search disclosure, can enable all forms of search history-based price...

We analyze an oligopolistic competition with differentiated products and qualities. The quality of a product is not known to consumers. Each firm can make an imperfect disclosure of its product quality before engaging in price-signaling competition. There are two regimes for separating...

This study assesses whether the implementation of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) has affected the quantity and quality of information in credit markets. We find that, after Reg FD, borrowing from new lenders was associated with a higher loan spread and this result remains robust after we...

We develop a model in which the principal and the agent share private information about the value of the agent for a multi-agent organization. The principal can disclose private information and make public the relative standing or status of all agents in the organization. We study whether it is...

Verrecchia (1983, 1990) introduced the proprietary cost hypothesis in which exogenous disclosure costs are a reduced-form interpretation of lost competitive advantage in product markets. We develop a micro-foundation for this disclosure cost in a Cournot game and explicitly derive the cost as a...