A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11142-021-09605-9

This paper investigates the effectiveness of one of the Federal Reserve’s unconventional monetary policy tools, the term auction facility (TAF). At issue is whether the TAF reduced the spread between the London interbank offered rate (LIBOR) rates and equivalent-term Treasury rates by reducing the liquidity premium embedded in LIBOR rates. This paper suggests that rather than reducing the liqui...

Investigating various corporate announcements and abnormal return days, I observe that around 2% of daily trading volume decreases only before scheduled earnings announcements. This empirical pattern is robust across different specifications and periods. Also, proxies of ex ante information asymmetry are consistently related to the trading volume only before scheduled earnings announcements. Th...

There are various studies on the behavior of the market. In particular, derivatives such as futures and options have taken a lot of attentions, lately. Predicting these derivatives is not only important for the risk management purposes, but also for price speculative activities. Besides that accurate prediction of the market’s direction can help investors to gain enormous profits with small amo...

This paper examines whether the “soft” information contained in the text of management’s quarterly earnings press releases is incrementally informative over the company’s reported “hard” earnings news. We use Diction, a textual-analysis program, to extract various dimensions of managerial net optimism from more than 20,000 corporate earnings announcements over the period 1998 to 2006 and docume...

I examine the role of product market relations in information assimilation surrounding corporate earnings announcements. I provide evidence that intra-industry information transfers measured by industry rival earnings announcements account for a substantial portion of the well documented post-earnings announcement drift. While this evidence appears to be most consistent with rational structural...