The Value of Risk-Reducing Information

Jeffrey F. Jaffe and Larry J. Merville

Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, 1974, vol. 9, issue 5, 697-707

Abstract: It has been suggested that information has the three following uses:1. Information can be employed to earn trading profits.2. Information can improve the operating decisions of a firm or group of firms and thereby increase the stock price.3. Information can reduce the risk of a firm or group of firms and thereby increase the stock price.

Date: 1974
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