The goal of this investigation is to provide additional evidence concerning the incremental information content of the 10‐K from the aggregate market perspective. As in Foster and Vickrey (1978), the phrase, incremental information content of the 10‐K, refers to the information content of the data set in the 10‐K which is in excess of that which is contained in the related annual report to shareholders and other preceding announcements such as earnings releases. The statistical procedures seem to imply that the 10‐K did not, in general, possess incremental information content from the aggregate perspective for the firms considered herein.

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Stock return volatility tends to increase significantly following stock splits. One potential cause of this is the trading of stocks in discrete price intervals called ticks. This study provides a direct test of price discreteness as a determinant of this phenomenon by examining variance increases before and after the 1997 date when the exchanges reduced the tick size from 1/8 to 1/16. Results generally show that the post-split variance increase was unaffected by the reduction in tick size even after controlling for other factors. AMEX stocks proved the exception, with slightly lower variance increases following the tick size reduction.

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