This paper examines how the release of industry rivals' earnings news during the IPO book-building period affects a firm's process of going public. The aggregate effect of rivals' earnings news is measured by a signal-to-noise ratio. Higher signal-to-noise ratios indicate better rivals' earnings...

We examine the intra-day informational effects of unexpected duration between trades on bid-ask spreads and depths. The difference between realized duration and the prediction from an autoregressive conditional duration model is used as a proxy for unexpected duration. We find that unexpected...

We examine the intra-day informational effects of unexpected duration between trades on bid-ask spreads and depths. The difference between realized duration and the prediction from an autoregressive conditional duration model is used as a proxy for unexpected duration. We find that unexpected...

The standard test for the pricing role of aggregate idiosyncratic risk in the conventional predictive regression considers aggregate total idiosyncratic risk a reasonable proxy for its undiversified component, which should be priced as theory suggests. However, when the priced component is...

In contrast to the current literature, we provide new evidence supporting a positive relation between idiosyncratic risk and the expected future market return. Since a large part of the idiosyncratic risk can be diversified away easily, the conventional aggregate idiosyncratic risk measures can...

We examine the intra-day relation between the time between trades and bid-ask spreads and depths. We use the unexpected portion of duration rather than realized duration to proxy for new information, and find that unexpected short duration increases the quoted spread and the adverse-selection...