This study examines whether insiders' incentives for private control benefits affect investment sensitivity to stock price. While Chen et al. (2007) link stock price informativeness to firms' learning from the stock market, we offer an alternative agency-cost based explanation. Using a total of...

type="main" xml:id="acfi12026-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>Using firms from 20 non-US countries, we investigate whether and how ownership structure, analyst following and country-level institutions influence stock price informativeness (SPI). We find that stock price informativeness decreases with...</p>

Recent research suggests that insiders’ incentives for capturing cash flows affect price formation process in which insiders are inclined to withhold good news and to accelerate the release of bad news (Jin and Myers, 2006). We investigate whether insiders’ incentives for private control...