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high information asymmetry. This rebalancing causes a substitution in ownership away from the investors who induce …
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We investigate whether providers of high frequency news analytics affect the stock market. As identification, we exploit a unique experiment based on differences in news event classifications between different product releases of a major provider of news analytics. We document a causal effect of...
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We investigate how short sellers strategically exploit the liquidity generated by the arrival of ambiguous information … – i.e. information likely to cause disagreement in interpretation. Using a sample of newspaper articles, media newswires …, and press releases, we construct a measure of information tangibility as the ratio of numbers to the total words in an …
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We investigate whether short sellers are subject to the disposition effect using a novel dataset that allows to identify the weekly closing of short positions. Consistent with the disposition effect, the closing of short sale positions is strongly related to a proxy of Shortsale Capital Gains...
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all the IPOs that took place in Sweden in the period 1995-2001. We have obtained detailed information on the portfolio … composition of investors in similar (in terms of size, book-to-market and industry) companies not taken public. The information is …
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Using a large sample of US active equity mutual funds from 1983 to 2001, we show that portfolio liquidity is actively managed and chosen as a function of the multiple liquidity needs a fund has. Using portfolio liquidity as a parsimonious proxy for the severity of liquidity needs, we find that...
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information on portfolio choice - broken down at the stock level - wealth, income and demographic characteristics of a big panel … of investors as well as information on the college they attended and their family situation at the time. We show that the … portfolio choice, such as hedging non-financial income risk, information and familiarity and so on. This holds even after …
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these hypotheses using the data on all IPOs in Sweden between 1995 and 2001. Using detailed information on the portfolio …
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We exploit the merger between BlackRock and Barclays Global Investors to study how changes in expected ownership concentration affect the investment behavior of funds and the cross-section of stocks worldwide. We find that funds with open-end structures and a large exposure to commonly-held...
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We study the degree of information substitutability in the financial market. Exploiting the cross-sectional and time …, process, and transmit soft information, we investigate how the difficulty/inability to use soft information has prompted a … switch to hard information, and its implication on fund performance. We show that lockdown reduces fund investment in …
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