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-prepared dividend cutters and test the implications of two alternative theories: the “signaling through market preparation” theory and … the “stock return volatility reduction” theory. We document several important differences between prepared and non …-prepared dividend cutters. Overall, our empirical results are consistent with the signaling theory …
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This paper examines how a firm adjusts its disclosure quality in response to technological innovations that improve investors' private information. We show that more precise private information can endogenously amplify supply shocks and, hence, increase noise-driven (or non-fundamental) price...
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We investigate the dynamics of heterogeneous beliefs and link them to the volatility pattern throughout the seasoned equity offering (SEO) event window. In sync with a reduction in information asymmetry related to management information releases around the SEO event, belief heterogeneity...
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This paper examines empirically the effect of business cycle on fundamental and information uncertainties and whether this relationship accentuates or attenuates idiosyncratic stock volatility. Fundamental uncertainty refers to the uncertainty about firms' future cash flows and earnings, while...
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This paper studies the choice between building liquidity buffers and raising funding ex post, to deal with liquidity shocks. We uncover the possibility of an inefficient liquidity squeeze equilibrium. Agents typically choose to build smaller liquidity buffers when they expect cheap funding....
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Does performance volatility enable organizations to increase their rank relative to their rivals? While prior research has argued that rankings are derived from organizations’ realized (past) performance, under quality uncertainty, volatility could also confer advantages for increasing rank....
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What drives intraday reversal? Previous studies of the U.S. market regard short-term reversal as compensation for liquidity provision. However, in this paper, we find that intraday reversal has no significant dependence on stock liquidity for the Chinese market. Hence, based on a stylized...
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We extend the arithmetic multi-factor electricity spot price model proposed by Benth, Kallsen & Meyer-Brandis by adding stochastic mean-level processes to their model and by taking additional information on the future behavior of these mean-level processes into account. The available...
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Is asset liquidity a source of price volatility? We answer this question within a continuous-time, New Monetarist economy under extrinsic uncertainty and endogenous asset liquidity. We consider single or multiple assets, risk-free or risky assets, assets that have a positive intrinsic value, no...
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The model of Foster-Viswanathan (1990, FV) predicts that information heterogeneity among market participants generates patterns in volume, trading costs and volatility. In the Italian Treasury bond market, periodic information asymmetry is related to the arrival of block orders from...
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