Download This PaperWhen Knowledge Is Power: Evidence from the Municipal Bond Market
Journal of Accounting and Economics, Forthcoming
49 Pages Posted: 5 May 2016 Last revised: 5 Aug 2017
Date Written: August 4, 2017
Abstract
I investigate whether access to fundamental information enhances retail investors’ bargaining power, reducing the premium that small municipal bond investors pay over large investors. I find a reduction in this small trade premium after the introduction of an online disclosure repository that lowers retail investors’ information acquisition costs. This finding is limited to issuers whose disclosures are disseminated through the repository. The finding is pronounced for issuers that impose high information acquisition costs on investors ex-ante and those that exhibit high disclosure quality ex-post. These results suggest that as investors’ information sets align, so does their bargaining power with dealers.
Keywords: Dealer Markets; Municipal Debt; Information Asymmetry; Asymmetric Bargaining Power; Dissemination
JEL Classification: D82; D83; D43
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Christine Cuny (Contact Author)
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