The Effect of Exogenous Information on Voluntary Disclosure and Market Quality

Autor: Ilan Guttman, Ilan Kremer, Sivan Frenkel
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: SSRN Electronic Journal.
ISSN: 1556-5068
0304-405X
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3211173
Popis: We analyze a model in which information may be voluntarily disclosed by a firm and/or by a third party, e.g., financial analysts. Due to its strategic nature, corporate voluntary disclosure is qualitatively different from third-party disclosure. Greater analyst coverage crowds out (crowds in) corporate voluntary disclosure when analysts mostly discover information that is available (unavailable) to the firm. Nevertheless, greater analyst coverage always improves the overall quality of public information. We base this claim on two market quality measures: price efficiency, which is statistical in nature, and liquidity, which is derived in a trading stage that follows the disclosure stage.
Databáze: OpenAIRE