“…Several studies, including Chordia, Subrahmanyam, and Tong (2014), Milian (2015), and Martineau (2021), argue that PEAD has recently shrunk to the point of disappearance. However, other recent studies, like Ali, Chen, Yao, and Yu (2020) and Cox (2020), find that PEAD persists. We document that while both PEAD and PEAD.txt decrease in the second half of our sample, the shrinkage of PEAD.txt is smaller, and it is far from disappearing.…”