Exchange ownership in the U.S. is often characterized as excessively concentrated. This leads to a concern that such concentration may prevent peripheral exchanges from mitigating adverse selection costs associated with low-latency arbitrage. We examine this concern using low-latency...

Prior literature documents a temporary spike in information asymmetry between sophisticated and unsophisticated traders around corporate disclosures because the former process new information faster. Using advances in textual analysis, we show that when management issues more uncertain financial...

Using a large sample of U.S. firms from 2001-2018, we examine the association between corporate integrity culture and stock price crash risk. We find that firms with high integrity culture are less likely to experience future stock price crashes. Further results show that integrity culture, as a...

Prior literature documents a temporary spike in information asymmetry between sophisticated and unsophisticated traders around corporate disclosures because the former process new information faster. Using advances in textual analysis, we show that when management issues more ambiguous or less...