Financial reporting opacity and informed trading by international institutional investors

Mark Maffett

Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2012, vol. 54, issue 2, 201-220

Abstract: Using cross-country data on trading by international mutual funds, I find that firms with more opaque information environments, as captured by firm- and country-level measures of the availability of financial reporting information, experience more privately informed trading by institutional investors. The association between firm-level opacity and informed trading is most pronounced where country-level disclosure infrastructures are less developed and for those investors for whom the incentives and opportunities to acquire private information are greatest. A difference-in-differences analysis of the returns earned by institutions in opaque stocks suggests that this information advantage is economically significant.

Keywords: Transparency; Informed trading; Institutional investors; International accounting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G15 G30 M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jacceco.2012.09.002

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