We show that CEOs’ social capital has a positive impact on stock price informativeness in an international sample of 69 countries. While considering characteristics not observable within one country such as legal, cultural, and developmental differences, we uncover that for more developed...

We investigate the association between CEOs’ social capital and stock price informativeness in a sample of US firms. After accounting for the fact that larger networks attract more analysts following, we find that firms with larger CEO social capital exhibit higher private information...