The Effects of Public Information with Asymmetrically Informed Short-Horizon Investors

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Chen, Qi; Huang, Zeqiong; Zhang, Yun
• 署名单位: Duke University; George Washington University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING RESEARCH
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-8456
• DOI: 10.1111/1475-679X.12052
• 发表日期: 2014
• 页码: 635-669
• 关键词: RATIONAL-EXPECTATIONS ECONOMY; institutional investors; INVESTMENT SENSITIVITY; MARKET-EFFICIENCY; financial-markets; STOCK-PRICE; cost; disclosure; acquisition; liquidity

摘要

This paper analyzes the effects of public information in a perfect competition trading model populated by asymmetrically informed short-horizon investors with different levels of private information precision. We first show that information asymmetry reduces the amount of private information revealed by price in equilibrium (i.e., price informativeness) and can lead to multiple linear equilibria. We then demonstrate that the presence of both information asymmetry and short horizons provides a channel through which public information influences price informativeness and equilibrium uniqueness. We identify conditions under which public information increases or decreases price informativeness, and when multiple equilibria may arise. Our analysis shows that public information not only directly endows prices with more (public) information, it can also have an important indirect effect on the degree to which prices reveal private information.