In an incomplete market with heterogeneous prior beliefs, we show public information can have a substantial impact on the ex ante cost of capital, trading volume, and investor welfare. The Pareto efficient public information system is the system enjoying the maximum ex ante cost of capital and...

We propose a multidimensional liquidity measure constructed from 6 out of 17 individual low-frequency liquidity proxies. The multidimensional liquidity factor yields significant positive premiums and offers distinguished explanatory power on the cross-sectional return variations in China’s...

Many studies investigate the impact of heterogeneous beliefs in the first moment, while very few in the second moment. This is partially due to continuous-time setup which makes it difficult to incorporate heterogeneous beliefs in the second moment. In a two-period exponential-normal model with...