Asymmetric Information and News Disclosure Rules

Posted: 12 Oct 2000

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Matthew I. Spiegel

Yale University - Yale School of Management, International Center for Finance

Avanidhar Subrahmanyam

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Finance Area; Financial Research Network (FIRN)

Abstract

When the imminence of news announcements is not public knowledge, many traders will lack information on both the mean and variance of private information. Our analysis of such a setting in both single and multi-security contexts implies that disclosure of impending information events by firms can bound variance uncertainty and thereby improve investor welfare by mitigating the market breakdown problem. We also find that the equilibrium pricing functions are non-linear; specifically, convex for small trades and concave for larger ones. In addition, we predict that large transactions will be followed by large levels of volatility.

JEL Classification: G12, G14

Suggested Citation

Spiegel, Matthew I. and Subrahmanyam, Avanidhar, Asymmetric Information and News Disclosure Rules. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=237791

Matthew I. Spiegel

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Avanidhar Subrahmanyam (Contact Author)

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Australia

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