Managerial Ownership and Firms’ Information Environment

• Main Authors: HAN, Soongsoo (Sam), KANG, Tony, Lobo, Gerald
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2008
• Subjects: Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Corporate Finance
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research_smu/8; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1007&context=soa_research_smu
• Institution: Singapore Management University

We examine the relation between managerial stock ownership and the firm’s information environment. We focus on three dimensions of the information environment: total, public, and private information precision (Barron, Kim, Lim and Stevens 1998). Our results suggest that firms’ total and public infor...