We use trade-level data to examine the role of actively managed funds (AMFs) in earnings news dissemination. We find AMFs are drawn to, and participate disproportionately more in, earnings announcements (EAs) that include bundled managerial guidance. When the two pieces of news are directionally...

This study provides an explanation for the emergence of power laws in asset trading volume and returns. We consider a two-state model with binary actions, where traders infer other traders' private signals regarding the value of an asset from their actions and adjust their own behavior...

This paper investigates the dynamic linkages between trading volume and investors sentiments for the S&P500 stock exchange. Two sentiment indicators are considered, the overconfidence and the net optimism-pessimism indicator. Non-linear dynamic approach, namely the asymmetric autoregressive...