Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure

Karthik Balakrishnan, Mary B. Billings, Bryan T. Kelly and Alexander Ljungqvist ()

No 18984, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Can managers influence the liquidity of their firms' shares? We use plausibly exogenous variation in the supply of public information to show that firms seek to actively shape their information environments by voluntarily disclosing more information than is mandated by market regulations and that such efforts have a sizeable and beneficial effect on liquidity. Firms respond to an exogenous loss of public information by providing more timely and informative earnings guidance. Responses appear motivated by a desire to reduce information asymmetries between retail and institutional investors. Liquidity improves as a result of voluntary disclosure and in turn increases firm value. This suggests that managers can causally influence their cost of capital via voluntary disclosure.

JEL-codes: G12 G24 M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013-04
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Published as Karthik Balakrishnan & Mary Brooke Billings & Bryan Kelly & Alexander Ljungqvist, 2014. "Shaping Liquidity: On the Causal Effects of Voluntary Disclosure," Journal of Finance, American Finance Association, vol. 69(5), pages 2237-2278, October.

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