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Review of Finance Vol. 28 No. 6 2024

Is news really news? The effects of selective disclosure regulations

Brent Kitchens; Robert Parham; Chris Yung

McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia , Charlottesville, VA 22903,

Abstract

Before regulations were enacted to prevent such practices, information leaked through selective disclosure was incorporated into markets prior to the public release of news. “News days” did not deliver news to markets; now they do. We provide novel evidence of changes in returns and turnover behavior around the enactment of regulations barring selective disclosure practices in the United States and the EU. We conversely document lack of such changes in Australia and Japan, which did not implement similar measures. We conclude that selective disclosure resolves Roll’s R2 puzzle.

DOI
10.1093/rof/rfae030
Volume
28
Issue
6
Pages
1991-2015
Language
en
Sources
bibtex:phds-export.bib openalex crossref

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