The Information in Asset Fire Sales
研究发现共同基金抛售时，信息不对称导致价格压力，基金经理的自主交易包含基本面信息，而预期交易则没有，这解释了抛售折扣的持续性和幅度。
Asset prices remain depressed for years following mutual fund fire sales, but little is known about the causes of these price drops. We show that asymmetric information generates price pressure during fire sales. We separate trades into expected trades, which assume fund managers scale down their portfolio, and discretionary trades. We find that discretionary trades contain fundamental information, whereas expected trades do not. Moreover, other traders cannot distinguish between discretionary and expected trades. Our findings help explain the magnitude and persistence of fire sale discounts: fund managers choose which assets to sell, and information asymmetries make it difficult for arbitrageurs to disentangle price pressure from fundamental information. This paper was accepted by Gustavo Manso, finance. Supplemental Material: Data and the internet appendix are available at https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2022.4585 .