In a single information transfer setting, we detect both under- and overreactions of stock prices to corporate earnings news. We find that the stock prices of a firm's blockholder underreact to the firm's earnings news but the stock prices of the firm overreact to its blockholder's earnings...

The return premium associated with the Amihud (2002) measure is generally considered a liquidity premium that compensates for price impact. We find that the pricing of the Amihud measure is not attributable to the construction of the return-to-volume ratio that is intended to capture price...

We collect a unique dataset of Twitter posts to examine the change in investor disagreement around earnings announcements. We find that investors' opinions can either converge (reduced disagreement) or diverge (increased disagreement) around earnings announcements. The convergence and divergence...

We find that bidder-target stock return correlations positively predict merger synergies, and the predictive power is enhanced when we focus more on idiosyncratic correlations. A measure of idiosyncratic correlation (IDC) between bidder and target firms that controls for all other stocks,...