Common Ownership, Price Informativeness, and Corporate Investment

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In Ji Jang

Bentley University - Department of Finance

Namho Kang

Bentley University - Department of Finance

Ari Yezegel

Bentley University - Department of Accountancy

Date Written: November 5, 2021

Abstract

Using financial institution mergers as exogenous shocks to common ownership, we find that stock prices of commonly held firms incorporate future earnings news more quickly and are less sensitive to noise traders. Our analyses show that the increase in price informativeness is due to: (1) increase in disclosure, (2) enhanced information production and diffusion, and (3) active trading by common owners. Further, we find that the investment sensitivity to Tobin’s Q for commonly held firms is higher, indicating that managers of such firms rely more on market prices for information. These results are robust to controlling for the financial crisis, and to alternative control groups. Our findings suggest that common ownership has a positive effect on information production and influences real corporate decision by improving price informativeness.

Keywords: Common Ownership, Market Efficiency, Investment, Information Acquisition

JEL Classification: G2, G14, G31

Suggested Citation

Jang, In Ji and Kang, Namho and Yezegel, Ari, Common Ownership, Price Informativeness, and Corporate Investment (November 5, 2021). Journal of Banking and Finance, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3728200 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3728200

In Ji Jang (Contact Author)

Bentley University - Department of Finance ( email )

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United States

Namho Kang

Bentley University - Department of Finance ( email )

175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02154
United States

Ari Yezegel

Bentley University - Department of Accountancy ( email )

175 Forest Street
Waltham, MA 02452
United States
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