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

Posted: 11 Sep 2014

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Qi Chen

Duke University - Fuqua School of Business

Zeqiong Huang

Yale School of Management

Yun Zhang

George Washington University

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Date Written: June 1, 2014

Abstract

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.

Suggested Citation

Chen, Qi and Huang, Zeqiong and Zhang, Yun, The Effects of Public Information with Asymmetrically Informed Short-Horizon Investors (June 1, 2014). Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 52, No. 3, 2014, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2493864

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