The ambition of this paper is to catch hidden information inside the Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC)13F public holding data in order to construct an equity portfolio that maximizes returns. The 13F ling data give us the quarterly stock trading decisions of included funds, but...

This paper links the CEO’s concerns for the current stock price to reductions in real investment. These concerns depend on the amount of equity he intends to sell in the short-term, but actual equity sales are an endogenous decision. We use the amount of stock and options scheduled to vest in...