Alliances establish a private channel of communication between allied firms in which managers can obtain useful information about future investment opportunities. I examine whether this feature of alliances hinders the market's ability to correctly assess the investment opportunities of firms in...

This paper analyzes the impact of blockownership dispersion on firm value. Blockholdings by multiple blockholders is a widespread phenomenon in the U.S. market. It is not clear, however, whether dispersion among blockholder is preferable to having a more concentrated ownership structure. To test...