We find that information leakages prior to public guidance issued by company management exist even after Regulation FD, and are more pronounced when characteristics of the firm, the guidance, or the industry reflect higher levels of information asymmetry. Since public guidance is only partially...

This article examines a theoretically-motivated measure of the "size effect" known as Market Diversity and links it to the relative returns of institutional actively managed portfolios. Market Diversity reflects how disperse or concentrated capital is across firms in the market, with changes in...

Low spreads between loan rates and deposit rates are indicative of a more efficient financial system. We argue that spreads are better cross country measures of banking system efficiency than the net interest margins used in previous studies. We present theoretical and empirical evidence that...

It is often argued in defense of Risk Parity portfolios that they maximize the Sharpe ratio if their securities have identical Sharpe ratios and identical correlations. However, securities have neither identical Sharpe ratios nor this correlation structure. In realistic markets, Risk Parity...

We examine an effect of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD) on voluntary public managerial guidance information quality. Results suggest that the information quality of public guidance has not deteriorated after RegFD. We also examine separately the effect of Reg FD on information efficiency...

We investigate the decision by corporate management to voluntarily disclose information that pertains to a firm's strategy. We find the likelihood of disclosure to be a tradeoff between the benefit of reducing information asymmetry and the cost of investors disagreeing with the strategy; this...