Staff Papers and Analyses

Working papers in the series were prepared in full or in part by SEC staff economists in the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis. They investigate a broad range of issues relevant to the Commission's mission and are disseminated to stimulate discussion and critical comment to the benefit of the public. DERA Working Papers are preliminary materials that have not been approved by the Commission and reflect only the views of the author(s).

White papers and analyses are prepared by SEC staff in the course of rulemaking and other Commission initiatives. Some of these materials are available elsewhere on the Commission website.

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Date Title Type
Tick Sizes and Market Quality: Revisiting the Tick Size Pilot

Yashar H. Barardehi, Peter Dixon, Qiyu Liu, and Ariel Lohr

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Cash Management and Extreme Liquidity Demand of Mutual Funds

Giulio Girardi, Christof Stahel, and Youchang W

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The Unit-Weighted Mean - Because Size Matters

Eugene Canjels

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Bond Liquidity and Dealer Inventories: Insights from US and European Regulatory Data

Plamen Ivanov, Alexei Orlov, and Michael Schihl

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Encouraging Broker and Adviser Background Checks: A Randomized Study on Twitter

K. Jeremy Ko, Sai Rao, and Parth Venkat

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Intentional Access Delays, Market Quality, and Price Discovery: Evidence from IEX Becoming an Exchange

Edwin Hu

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Did Social Interactions Fuel or Suppress the US Housing Bubble?

K. Jeremy Ko, Christo Pirinsky

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Mutual Funds Apart From the Crowd​

Nadia Vozlyublennaia and Youchang Wu

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Hedge Fund Liquidity Management

George O. Aragon, Tolga Ergun, Mila Getmansky, and Giulio Girardi

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Security Recommendations and the Liability of Broker-Dealers
Matthew L. Kozora
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Mutual Funds Apart From the Crowd​
Nadia Vozlyublennaia and Youchang Wu
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Manipulation of Illiquid Asset Indexes​

K. Jeremy Ko, Igor Kozhanov, and Sean Wilkoff

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Public versus Private Provision of Governance: The Case of Proxy Access

​Tara Bhandari, Peter Iliev, and Jonathan Kalodimos

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The Effects of Regulating Hidden Add-on Costs

K. Jeremy Ko and Jared Williams

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Too Fast or Too Slow? Determining the Optimal Speed of Financial Markets

Daniel Fricke and Austin Gerig

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High-Frequency Trading Synchronizes Prices in Financial Markets

Austin Gerig

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Liquidity Risk, Speculative Trade, and the Optimal Latency of Financial Markets

Daniel Fricke and Austin Gerig

See Latest Revision (1/21/15)

Daniel Fricke and Austin Gerig

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Automated Liquidity Provision

Austin Gerig and David Michayluk

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Making the Most of Good Times: Shareholder Rights and Performance Revisited

Tara Bhandari

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Differences of Opinion and Stock Prices: Evidence from Spin-Offs and Mergers

Tara Bhandari

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Going Public Abroad

Cecilia Caglio, Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Jennifer Marietta-Westberg

DERA Working Paper 2013-01
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Do Takeover Laws Matter? Evidence from Five Decades of Hostile Takeovers

Matthew D. Cain, Stephen B. McKeon and Steven Davidoff Solomon

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Differences in the Information Environment Prior to SEOs under Relaxed Disclosure Regulation
Sarah B. Clinton, Joshua T. White and Tracie Woidtke
DERA Working Paper 2013-05
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The Economic Implications of Money Market Fund Capital Buffers
Craig M. Lewis
DERA Working Paper 2014-01
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Going Public Abroad

Cecilia Caglio, Kathleen Weiss Hanley and Jennifer Marietta-Westberg

See Latest Version (12/1/14)

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The Effects of Regulating Hidden Add-on Costs

K. Jeremy Ko and Jared Williams

See Latest Version (5/9/15)

DERA Working Paper 2013-03
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Appointments of Academic Directors

Joshua T. White, Tracie Woidtke, Harold A. Black and Robert L. Schweitzer

DERA Working Paper 2013-02
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Analyst Competition and Monitoring:Earnings Management in Neglected Firms

Laura Lindsey and Simona Mola

DERA Working Paper 2013-04
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