Can Internet-based disclosure reduce information asymmetry?

Jean-François Gajewski and Li Li

Advances in accounting, 2015, vol. 31, issue 1, 115-124

Abstract: The Internet is widely used by listed companies to manage investor relations. Since January 2007, the French Financial Authority has required companies listed on Euronext-Paris to disclose all mandatory financial information via the Internet in order to enhance information transparency. This paper examines the impact of Internet-based disclosure on the French stock market by analyzing the relationship between information asymmetry and Internet disclosure practices. Extending previous studies on Web-based disclosure, a checklist of 40 items is developed to evaluate the level of Internet-based voluntary disclosure. Measuring information asymmetry by the spread and the probability of informed trading, we show that greater Web-based disclosure lowers information asymmetry in the French financial market.

Keywords: Internet; Information asymmetry; Financial information (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.adiac.2015.03.013

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