American Economic Review
ISSN 0002-8282 (Print) | ISSN 1944-7981 (Online)
Endogenous Information Flows and the Clustering of Announcements
American Economic Review
vol. 101,
no. 7, December 2011
(pp. 2955–79)
Abstract
We consider the strategic timing of information releases in a dynamic disclosure model. Because investors don't know whether or when the firm is informed, the firm will not necessarily disclose immediately. We show that bad market news can trigger the immediate release of information by firms. Conversely, good market news slows the release of information by firms. Thus, our model generates clustering of negative announcements. Surprisingly, this result holds only when firms can preemptively disclose their own information prior to the arrival of external information. These results have implications for conditional variance and skewness of stock returns. (JEL D21, D83, G12, G14, L11)Citation
Acharya, Viral V., Peter DeMarzo, and Ilan Kremer. 2011. "Endogenous Information Flows and the Clustering of Announcements." American Economic Review, 101 (7): 2955–79. DOI: 10.1257/aer.101.7.2955JEL Classification
- D21 Firm Behavior: Theory
- D83 Search; Learning; Information and Knowledge; Communication; Belief
- G12 Asset Pricing; Trading volume; Bond Interest Rates
- G14 Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies
- L11 Production, Pricing, and Market Structure; Size Distribution of Firms