Both theory and evidence are mixed regarding the impact on prices of trading on “dark” venues partially exempt from National Market System requirements. Theory predicts that price discovery improves as dark venues siphon noisy uninformed trades, but increased adverse selection reduces...

This paper investigates the association between investor sentiment and accounting conservatism. We find that managers recognize economic losses in earnings in a more timely manner during periods of high investor sentiment. Further, the sentiment-conservatism relation is stronger for firms with...

Prior literature documents that short sale activity clusters around mandated short sale position disclosures. We investigate two competing hypotheses for this finding in the UK market: herding- versus information-based trading. First, using an entropy-balanced matched sample of stocks, we find...