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The Role of 'Expert Reviewers' in Private Capital Markets “专家评审”在私人资本市场中的作用
Pub Date : 2020-10-20 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3715643
Reena Aggarwal, K. Hanley, Xiaofei Zhao
We study initial coin offerings (ICOs) to understand how an unregulated market overcomes information frictions and conflicts of interest. Listing platforms both independently assess an offering and crowdsource information from "expert" reviewers. These experts provide more balanced textual reviews as they gain experience and receive positive feedback from the community, consistent with a reputation effect. We find that proceeds are higher when reviews are more positive even after controlling for both the reviewer's and platform's numerical rating. Finally, experts with greater potential conflicts of interest are more positive than other reviewers, but investors identify these conflicts and discount their reviews.
我们研究了首次代币发行(ico),以了解不受监管的市场如何克服信息摩擦和利益冲突。上市平台既可以独立评估产品,也可以众包“专家”审稿人提供的信息。随着这些专家获得经验并从社区获得积极反馈,他们提供了更加平衡的文本评论,这与声誉效应相一致。我们发现,即使在控制了评论者和平台的数值评级后,当评论更积极时,收益也会更高。最后,具有更大潜在利益冲突的专家比其他审稿人更积极,但投资者识别这些冲突并贬低他们的审稿人。
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引用次数: 1
National Culture and Analysts’ Forecasting Behavior 民族文化与分析师的预测行为
Pub Date : 2020-10-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3713715
Ying Cao, Rubin Hao, Yong George Yang
We examine whether national culture, in particular, its individualism/collectivism dimension, affects sell-side financial analysts’ forecasting behavior. We find that analysts from individualistic cultures are more likely to issue bold earnings forecasts and stock recommendations than analysts from collectivistic cultures. These results are related to individualistic (collectivistic) analysts’ inclination to over-weight (under-weight) their private information in forming forecasts. The culture’s effect is not permanent: Although slowly, it does decay over time. For market consequences, short-window market reactions are stronger to bold reports by collectivistic analysts than to those by individualistic analysts. For longer-term effects, we find that higher individualism of the covering analysts is associated with lower stock price synchronicity, indicating proportionately more firm-specific information impounded in the stock price. In net, however, we find that individualistic and collectivistic analysts appear to be equally effective in mitigating firms’ information asymmetry.
我们考察了民族文化,特别是其个人主义/集体主义维度,是否会影响卖方金融分析师的预测行为。我们发现,来自个人主义文化的分析师比来自集体主义文化的分析师更有可能发布大胆的盈利预测和股票推荐。这些结果与个人主义(集体主义)分析师倾向于在形成预测时高估(低估)他们的私人信息有关。这种文化的影响不是永久的:虽然缓慢,但它确实会随着时间的推移而衰减。就市场后果而言,短期窗口市场对集体主义分析师的大胆报告的反应强于个人主义分析师的报告。对于长期效应,我们发现覆盖分析师的较高个人主义与较低的股价同步性相关,这表明股价中包含的公司特定信息成比例地更多。然而,在网络上,我们发现个人主义和集体主义分析师在缓解企业信息不对称方面似乎同样有效。
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引用次数: 1
Overachieving and Obsessive Behavior as Signaling Devices under Career Concern 成就过度和强迫行为作为职业关注下的信号装置
Pub Date : 2020-10-15 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3711917
A. Rodivilov, Dongsoo Shin, Xiaojian Zhao
This paper provides a rationale for overachievement in non-professional activities in the labor market. The intrinsically motivated worker uses his achievement in the non-professional activity as a signaling device to protect his image. When the worker's career concern is weak, he exerts no extra effort on his non-professional activity. When the worker's career concern is strong, however, his effort level for the non-professional activity can go beyond the bliss point. With a very strong career concern, an “obsessive behavior” can arise in equilibrium, as the intrinsically motivated worker may choose to sacrifice the professional activity for the non-professional activity in an earlier stage of his career.
本文为劳动力市场中非专业活动的超额成就提供了一个理论基础。内在激励的工作者把他在非专业活动中的成就作为保护自己形象的信号装置。当工人的职业关注较弱时,他就不会在非职业活动上付出额外的努力。然而,当工作者的职业关注强烈时,他对非专业活动的努力水平可能会超过极乐点。在非常强烈的职业关注下,“强迫行为”会在平衡状态下出现,因为内在动机的员工可能会选择在职业生涯的早期阶段牺牲专业活动来从事非专业活动。
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引用次数: 0
Splitting and Shuffling: Institutional Trading Motives and Order Submissions Across Brokers 分裂和洗牌:机构交易动机和跨经纪人的订单提交
Pub Date : 2020-09-30 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3429452
Munhee Han, Sanghyun (Hugh) Kim
This paper studies order submission strategies by institutional investors when trading on private information. By merging institutional daily transactions with original/confidential 13F filings, I separate informed trades from uninformed ones. Informed large orders tend to be split across more brokers and over more days. While same brokers tend to work uninformed large orders over multiple days, the brokers who facilitated early parts of broken-up informed orders rarely receive the remaining parts of the same orders on later days. Institutional investors also provide camouflage for their informed orders by mixing an informed order with other uninformed orders simultaneously sent to the same broker. As a result, a higher degree of shuffling a portfolio of orders is associated with a larger share of informed trading volume. The splitting and shuffling strategies designed to conceal informed trades from brokers and other market participants tend to lower institutional trading costs, especially on informed orders.
本文研究了机构投资者在利用私有信息进行交易时的订单提交策略。通过将机构日常交易与原始/保密的13F文件合并,我将知情交易与不知情交易分开。知情的大额订单往往会在更多的经纪商和更长的时间内完成。虽然相同的经纪人倾向于在多日内处理不知情的大订单,但促成破碎的通知订单的早期部分的经纪人很少在晚些时候收到相同订单的剩余部分。机构投资者还通过将知情指令与同时发送给同一经纪商的其他不知情指令混合在一起,为其知情指令提供伪装。因此,更高程度的订单组合洗牌与更大份额的知情交易量有关。旨在向经纪商和其他市场参与者隐瞒知情交易的拆分和洗牌策略,往往会降低机构交易成本,尤其是在知情订单上。
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引用次数: 0
Does Costly Persuasion Signal Quality? 昂贵的说服是否代表质量?
Pub Date : 2020-09-09 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3689695
Elias Carroni, L. Ferrari, G. Pignataro
This article investigates how a privately-informed seller could signal her type by gathering information about the buyer's match value. We study two alternative ways to obtain information. In the first one, labeled information acquisition, the seller can acquire exogenous signals by facing a fixed acquisition cost. In the second one, on top of the fixed cost, the seller faces an additional designing cost based on mutual information to endogenously reduce uncertainty on the match value (information design). At first glance, bearing such cost may seem not convenient for the seller. However, we show that when the designing cost is relatively high, the parameter region in which separation can occur is larger under information design. When this cost is low, the separation cannot emerge under information design. The non-monotone relationship between the designing cost and separating outcomes shows that a seller's ability to provide match information is not necessarily associated with more precise quality information.
本文研究了知情的卖方如何通过收集有关买方匹配值的信息来表明她的类型。我们研究了两种获取信息的方法。第一种是有标签信息获取,卖方可以通过固定的获取成本获取外生信号。在第二种情况下,卖方在固定成本的基础上,面临着基于互信息的额外设计成本,以内源性地减少匹配值的不确定性(信息设计)。乍一看,承担这样的成本对卖方来说似乎并不方便。然而,我们发现当设计成本较高时,信息设计下可发生分离的参数区域更大。当这一成本较低时,信息设计下就不能出现分离。设计成本与分离结果之间的非单调关系表明,卖方提供匹配信息的能力不一定与更精确的质量信息相关。
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引用次数: 2
Screening Competition under Flexible Information Acquisition 柔性信息获取下的筛选竞争
Pub Date : 2020-09-09 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3690020
Yiran Fan
This paper studies screening competition under flexible information acquisition and its interaction with price competition. Multiple homogeneous buyers play a game where they simultaneously design independent exams with pre-specified information limit on a binary-type seller. Once observing own exam's outcome, a buyer may choose to bid for the object. This paper shows that under general assumptions on information cost, binary-signal symmetric equilibrium exists and must be supported by mixed strategies. Moreover, equilibrium is inefficient and on average buyers over-reject the seller. Price regulation may help restore efficiency.
本文研究了柔性信息获取条件下的筛选竞争及其与价格竞争的相互作用。多个同质买家进行博弈,同时对二元型卖家设计具有预先指定信息限制的独立考试。一旦观察到自己的考试结果,买家可以选择对该物品出价。本文证明了在一般信息成本假设下,二元信号对称均衡存在,且必须由混合策略支持。此外,均衡是低效的,平均而言,买家会过度拒绝卖家。价格管制可能有助于恢复效率。
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引用次数: 0
Collective Search in Networks 网络中的集体搜索
Pub Date : 2020-08-30 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3197244
Niccolò Lomys
I study social learning in networks with information acquisition and choice. Bayesian agents act in sequence, observe the choices of their connections, and acquire information via sequential search. Complete learning occurs if search costs are not bounded away from zero and the network is sufficiently connected and has identifiable information paths. If search costs are bounded away from zero, complete learning is possible in many stochastic networks, including almost-complete networks, but even a weaker notion of long-run learning fails in many other networks. When agents observe random numbers of immediate predecessors, the rate of convergence, the probability of wrong herds, and long-run efficiency properties are the same as in the complete network. The density of indirect connections affects convergence rates. Network transparency has short-run implications for welfare and efficiency. Simply letting agents observe the shares of earlier choices reduces inefficiency and welfare losses.
我研究的是带有信息获取和选择的网络中的社会学习。贝叶斯智能体按顺序行动,观察其连接的选择,并通过顺序搜索获取信息。如果搜索成本不被限制在零附近,并且网络充分连接并且具有可识别的信息路径,则可以实现完全学习。如果搜索成本被限制在接近零的范围内,完全学习在许多随机网络中是可能的,包括几乎完全的网络,但即使是较弱的长期学习概念在许多其他网络中也失败了。当智能体观察到随机数量的直接前代时,收敛速度、错误群体的概率和长期效率属性与完整网络中的相同。间接连接的密度影响收敛速度。网络透明度对福利和效率有短期影响。简单地让代理人观察早期选择的份额可以降低效率和福利损失。
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引用次数: 1
Strongly Rationalizable Virtual Implementation in Social Environments With Evidence 有证据的社会环境中的强合理化虚拟实现
Pub Date : 2020-08-25 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3680728
Carlo Cusumano
This article investigates rationalizable implementation in social environments where agents can provide hard evidence on the private information they possess. Specifically, we study necessary and sufficient conditions for virtual implementation using a notion of Rationalizability that captures forward-induction thinking. Our results non-trivially strengthen those from previous contributions to Rationalizable Implementation with dynamic mechanisms. In particular, we prove that, under a mild economic condition, dynamic mechanisms that rely on evidence can strategically distinguish all agents' information types endowed with different type-dependent messages. Thus, in a large class of social environments, if agents' evidence technologies are responsive, i.e., different types are endowed with different evidence, preference interdependence no longer plays a role in determining which class of Social Choice Functions can be rationalizably virtually implemented.
本文研究了社会环境中的合理实现,在这种环境中,代理可以提供有关其拥有的私人信息的确凿证据。具体地说,我们使用捕获前向归纳思维的合理化概念来研究虚拟实现的必要和充分条件。我们的结果通过动态机制加强了之前对Rationalizable Implementation的贡献。特别地,我们证明了在温和的经济条件下,依赖于证据的动态机制可以策略性地区分被赋予不同类型依赖信息的所有主体的信息类型。因此,在一个大类别的社会环境中,如果agent的证据技术是响应性的,即不同类型被赋予不同的证据,偏好相互依赖就不再决定哪一类社会选择函数可以合理地虚拟实施。
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引用次数: 1
Information Design in Optimal Auctions 最优拍卖中的信息设计
Pub Date : 2020-08-14 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3673680
Yi-Chun Chen, Xiangqian Yang
We study the information design problem in a single-unit auction setting. The information designer controls independent private signals according to which the buyers infer their binary private values. Assuming that the seller adopts the optimal auction due to Myerson (1981) in response, we characterize both the buyer-optimal information structure, which maximizes the buyers' surplus, and the sellerworst information structure, which minimizes the seller's revenue. We translate both information design problems into finite-dimensional, constrained optimization problems in which one can explicitly solve for the optimal information structures. In contrast to the case with one buyer (Roesler and Szentes, 2017 and Du, 2018), we show that with two or more buyers, the symmetric buyer-optimal information structure is different from the symmetric seller-worst information structure. The good is always sold under the seller-worst information structure but not under the buyer-optimal information structure. Nevertheless, as the number of buyers goes to infinity, both symmetric information structures converge to no disclosure. We also show that in an ex ante symmetric setting, an asymmetric information structure is never seller-worst but can generate a strictly higher surplus for the buyers than the symmetric buyer-optimal information structure.
研究了单单位拍卖环境下的信息设计问题。信息设计者控制独立的私有信号,购买者根据这些信号推断出自己的二进制私有值。假设卖方采用Myerson(1981)提出的最优拍卖作为回应,我们描述了买方-最优信息结构(使买方剩余最大化)和卖方-最差信息结构(使卖方收益最小化)。我们将这两个信息设计问题转化为有限维的约束优化问题,其中可以明确地解决最优信息结构。与只有一个买家的情况相比(Roesler和Szentes, 2017和Du, 2018),我们表明,当有两个或两个以上的买家时,对称的买家-最优信息结构与对称的卖家-最差信息结构不同。商品总是在卖方-最差信息结构下卖出,而不是在买方-最优信息结构下卖出。然而,当购买者数量趋于无穷大时,两种对称信息结构趋于不披露。我们还证明了在事前对称的情况下,非对称信息结构绝不是卖方最坏的情况,而是可以为买方产生严格高于对称买方最优信息结构的剩余。
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引用次数: 5
The Deterrent Effect of Whistleblowing on Insider Trading 举报对内幕交易的威慑作用
Pub Date : 2020-08-12 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3672026
Jacob Raleigh
An objective of the Dodd-Frank Act was to improve the detection of financial fraud, including insider trading, through the creation of the whistle-blower bounty program at the SEC. This program provides for substantial financial rewards and strong anti-retaliation provisions to protect whistle-blowers. I test the effectiveness of the whistle-blower program in reducing informed trading by corporate insiders. I isolate the effect of the program from that of other concurrent reforms by identifying insiders of firms that are more sensitive to whistle-blowing allegations. For a sample of firms that lobbied against the whistle-blower provisions of the Act, I find that the profitability of insider purchases significantly reduces post Dodd-Frank relative to that of other insiders. The reduction in abnormal profits is economically meaningful, in the range of 0.05% to 0.10% daily return. I find similar results for insiders of firms with weak internal whistle-blower programs who are likely to be more sensitive to the new regulation, and for insiders of firms perceived by market participants as benefiting from the additional oversight provided by the program. I analyze whether the whistle-blower program was effective in reducing informed insider sales by examining pre-earnings announcement and pre-M&A settings when insider transactions are more likely to be information-driven. I find that, post Dodd-Frank, insiders are less likely to sell before events that are perceived negatively by investors. The legal literature suggests that insider trading behavior is more difficult to expose and prove than corporate-level fraud. In contrast with the beliefs of the program critics, I find that whistle-blowers are effective deterrents of insider trading, suggesting that they are a valuable resource for unravelling this hard-to-detect illegal activity.
《多德-弗兰克法案》的目标之一是通过在证券交易委员会设立举报人赏金计划,提高对包括内幕交易在内的金融欺诈的检测。该计划规定了大量的经济奖励和强有力的反报复条款,以保护举报人。我测试了举报人计划在减少公司内部知情交易方面的有效性。我通过识别对举报指控更敏感的公司内部人士,将该计划的影响与其他同步改革的影响隔离开来。对于一个游说反对该法案中举报人条款的公司样本,我发现,相对于其他内部人士,多德-弗兰克法案出台后,内部人士购买的盈利能力显著降低。异常利润的减少在经济上是有意义的,在0.05%到0.10%的日收益范围内。我发现,对于内部举报人计划薄弱的公司的内部人员,以及被市场参与者认为受益于该计划提供的额外监督的公司的内部人员,也有类似的结果,这些内部人员可能对新监管更敏感。我分析了检举人计划是否有效地减少了知情的内幕交易,通过检查收益前公告和并购前的设置,当内幕交易更有可能是信息驱动的。我发现,多德-弗兰克法案出台后,内部人士不太可能在投资者认为负面的事件发生之前卖出股票。法律文献表明,内幕交易行为比公司层面的欺诈更难以曝光和证明。与项目批评者的看法相反,我发现举报人是对内幕交易的有效威慑,这表明他们是揭露这种难以察觉的非法活动的宝贵资源。
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引用次数: 5
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