Heterogeneity of Funds and Information Disclosure: Evidence

Yanjian Zhu, Zhaoying Wu and Xiaolin Yang

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2018, vol. 54, issue 13, 3081-3099

Abstract: Institutional investors, especially public funds, play an important role in governing listed firms as they grow in Chinese stock markets. We classify each fund as “dedicated,” “transient,” or “mixed,” according to the concentration, turnover, and profit sensitivity of their stock holdings. We find that listed firms with more shares held by dedicated funds have a higher disclosure quality, while firms with more shares held by transient funds have a lower disclosure quality. These findings are consistent in different model settings. In addition, dedicated funds improve the disclosure quality of non-state-owned enterprises more than state-owned enterprises. Dedicated funds can benefit from the lower debt-financing cost and higher stock liquidity of firms with better disclosure quality.

Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2018.1472078

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