Robert E. Verrecchia, The Use of Mathematical Models in Financial Accounting, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 20, Supplement: Studies on Current Research Methodologies in Accounting: A Critical Evaluation (1982), pp. 1-42

Robert E. Verrecchia, On the Relationship Between Volume Reaction and Consensus of Investors: Implications for Interpreting Tests of Information Content, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 19, No. 1 (Spring, 1981), pp. 271-283

Partnership, Information systems, Accounting method

In this paper we investigate a firm's decision to redact proprietary information from its material contract filings. Information redaction results when the Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) grants a firm's request to withhold information from investors in its material contract filings, presumably because the information is proprietary. We hypothesize that when firms redact information, measures of adverse selection deteriorate. That is, the redaction of proprietary information from material contracts should be associated with: a larger adverse selection component of the bid‐ask spread, reductions in market depth, and lower market turnover. In addition, we conjecture that the decision to redact depends on whether the firm plans on raising capital, the competitiveness of the firm's industry, and the performance of the firm. Overall the results of our analysis generally support our predictions. We find that when firms redact information, contemporaneous measures of the adverse selection component of the bid‐ask spread rise, and market depth and share turnover deteriorate; this suggests an increase in adverse selection. We also find firms are less likely to redact when they issue long‐term debt and are more likely to redact when they are in a competitive industry or experience losses.

Stanley Baiman, Robert E. Verrecchia, The Relation Among Capital Markets, Financial Disclosure, Production Efficiency, and Insider Trading, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Spring, 1996), pp. 1-22

Public announcement, Preannouncements of information, Private information, Price reaction

Analyst forecasts, Analyst forecast errors, Correlated forecast errors, Private information

Robert W. Holthausen, Robert E. Verrecchia, The Effect of Sequential Information Releases on the Variance of Price Changes in an Intertemporal Multi-Asset Market, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Spring, 1988), pp. 82-106

William N. Lanen, Robert E. Verrecchia, Operating Decisions and the Disclosure of Management Accounting Information, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 25, Studies on Stewardship Uses of Accounting Information (1987), pp. 165-189

Christian Leuz, Robert E. Verrecchia, The Economic Consequences of Increased Disclosure, Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 38, Supplement: Studies on Accounting Information and the Economics of the Firm (2000), pp. 91-124