Sidelined Investors, Trading-Generated News, and the Conditional Moments of Stock Returns

Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 615-648, 2002

Posted: 1 Dec 2008

See all articles by H. Henry Cao

H. Henry Cao

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area

Joshua D. Coval

Harvard Business School - Finance Unit; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

David A. Hirshleifer

Marshall School of Business, USC; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Abstract

This paper studies information blockages and the asymmetric release of information in a security market with fixed setup costs of trading. In this setting, 'sidelined' investors may delay trading until price movements validate their private signals. Trading thereby internally generates the arrival of further news to the market. This leads to 1) negative skewness following price runups and positive skewness following price rundowns (even though the model is ex ante symmetric), 2) a lack of correspondence between large price changes and the arrival of external information, and 3) increases in volatility following large price changes.

Suggested Citation

Cao, Huining Henry and Coval, Joshua D. and Hirshleifer, David A., Sidelined Investors, Trading-Generated News, and the Conditional Moments of Stock Returns. Review of Financial Studies, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 615-648, 2002, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1290724

Huining Henry Cao

University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Finance Area ( email )

Kenan-Flagler Business School
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3490
United States

Joshua D. Coval

Harvard Business School - Finance Unit ( email )

Boston, MA 02163
United States

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

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David A. Hirshleifer (Contact Author)

Marshall School of Business, USC ( email )

Marshall School of Business
Los Angeles, CA 90089
United States

HOME PAGE: http://https://sites.uci.edu/dhirshle/

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) ( email )

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