We use a proprietary database of institutional investors' daily stock transactions to test the validity of a common managerial perception that transient institutions sell their stock ownership indiscriminately upon announcements of small negative earnings surprises, resulting in unwarranted...

We use a proprietary database of institutional investors' daily stock transactions to examine transient institutions' trading behavior in response to announcements of small negative earnings surprises (defined as quarterly earnings that fall short of analysts' consensus forecasts by one cent)....

We examine the consequences of a management earnings forecast regulation implemented in a staggered manner. The regulation substantially increases the directly affected firms' frequency of management forecasts. Nevertheless, approximately 14% of the directly affected firms fail to comply with...

In 2007, OTC Markets Group assigned each Pink Sheets company to a disclosure tier and on its websites affixed a colorful graphic to its stock symbol signifying the company's public disclosure level. This unique innovation allows us to investigate the impact of increased salience of disclosure...