Trading Against the Random Expiration of Private Information: A Natural Experiment

56 Pages Posted: 1 Jan 2015 Last revised: 21 Mar 2019

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Mohammadreza Bolandnazar

Columbia University - Columbia Business School

Robert J. Jackson, Jr.

New York University School of Law

Wei Jiang

Emory University Goizueta Business School; ECGI; NBER

Joshua Mitts

Columbia Law School

Date Written: July 22, 2018

Abstract

For years, the SEC accidentally distributed securities disclosures to some investors before the public. This setting is unique because the delay until public disclosure was exogenous and the private information window was well-defi ned, which we exploit to study informed trading with a random stopping time. Trading intensity and the pace at which prices incorporate information decrease with the expected delay until public release, but the relation between trading intensity and time elapsed varies with traders' learning process. Noise trading and relative information advantage play similar roles as in standard microstructure theories assuming a fixed time window.

Keywords: Private information; information dissemination; informed trading

JEL Classification: G14, G28

Suggested Citation

Bolandnazar, Mohammadreza and Jackson, Jr., Robert J. and Jiang, Wei and Mitts, Joshua, Trading Against the Random Expiration of Private Information: A Natural Experiment (July 22, 2018). Journal of Finance, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2544128 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2544128

Mohammadreza Bolandnazar

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Robert J. Jackson, Jr.

New York University School of Law ( email )

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Wei Jiang (Contact Author)

Emory University Goizueta Business School ( email )

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Joshua Mitts

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