We document beneficial associations between openness to foreign equity investors and the information environment in emerging stock markets. Openness is reflected in legal, regulatory, and cross-listing events, the fraction of stock available to foreign investors, and the size of U.S. portfolio...

We examine stock market behavior around earnings announcements in three countries with different degrees of government involvement with corporations. We find evidence consistent with insider trading in shares of politically connected Indonesian companies. We find little comparable evidence for...

With the adoption of Regulation Fair Disclosure (Reg FD), market behavior around earnings releases displays no significant change in return volatility (after controlling for decimalization of stock trading) but significant increases in trading volume due to difference in opinion. Analyst...