Are Investors' Corporate Site Visits Informative?

• Main Authors: CHENG, Qiang, DU, Fei, WANG, Xin, WANG, Yutao
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2013
• Subjects: Corporate site visits; selective access; selective disclosure; information acquisition; Accounting; Corporate Finance
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1204; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2203/viewcontent/WANG2013JuneCapana.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Corporate site visit is an important type of investors’ information acquisition activities, but its usefulness is not well understood in the literature, partially due to the lack of data. Using a unique dataset of corporate site visits in China, we analyze the information content and the determinant...