In a model of mutual fund investor learning about managerial ability, we investigate how investment decisions depend on both past returns and non-return information. We show that non-return information affects investors' reliance on past returns as well as their decision to participate. Our...

Information gathering is an instinctive response to uncertainty, but such efforts may not fully resolve the uncertainty that prompted them. This implies that proxies for investor information gathering may endogenously reflect investor uncertainty, not only before but also after information...

In this paper, we construct an information asymmetry factor (ECINF) based on the price discovery of large trades. ECINF is significantly negatively correlated with market excess return, indicating that market-wide information asymmetry is lower in bull markets, which is consistent with the view...

The presented paper proves that working time arrangements, which include hours flexibility and enable hours deposits, are appealing under product market uncertainty. The model integrates efficiency wage arguments into an implicit insurance-contract environment, thus extending the existing...