As alternative pricing schemes proliferate, researchers examine beliefs about their fairness
Henry Friedman’s research finds, surprisingly, that major economic news actually heightens attention paid to company announcements
Stronger financial reporting standards seem to mean more for growth of countries’ credit markets than their stock markets
Decade-old bank-risk limits may have exacerbated liquidity problems
With high-quality borrowers hard to judge from afar, Alt-A market offers quiet signal on creditworthiness
What happened when the Argentine government lied about inflation numbers?
Analysis uses business credit card loans to gauge market perception
How a localized flood may result in fewer loans to a far-off community
The simplest explanation — “I can’t believe you know something I don’t” — may trump all the rest
Active investors take up some — but not all — of the slack created by index funds
Do investors misprice assets, revise their risk appetite or make some other misjudgment?
Less sophisticated investors reveal their sentiment in certain trades, and a 20-year study measures it company by company
Investors may underreact when information arrives in small, continuous bits
Uncertainty about outside news alters company disclosures and how markets interpret them, study finds