scholarly journals Managerial Ability and Income Smoothing

2019 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bok Baik ◽  
Sunhwa Choi ◽  
David B. Farber
Keyword(s):  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Income Smoothing ◽  
High Ability ◽  
Managerial Ability ◽  
Price Informativeness ◽  
Future Performance ◽  
Stock Price Informativeness ◽  
Future Cash Flows

ABSTRACT In this study, we investigate whether managerial ability is related to income smoothing and, if so, whether smoothing associated with managerial ability improves the informativeness of earnings and stock prices about future performance. Using a large sample of firms, we find that managerial ability is positively related to smoothing. More importantly, we show that high-ability managers incorporate more forward-looking information about cash flows into current earnings through smoothing, thereby enhancing earnings informativeness. We also find that smoothing associated with high-ability managers improves stock price informativeness about future cash flows. Our study should be of interest to researchers, practitioners, and others concerned with understanding the determinants and usefulness of smoothing.

The real effects of primary and secondary equity markets on firm performance

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 397-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andriansyah Andriansyah
Keyword(s):  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Operating Performance ◽  
Equity Markets ◽  
Secondary Market ◽  
Price Informativeness ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Real Effects ◽  
Stock Price Informativeness

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the real effects of primary and secondary equity markets on the post-issue operating performance of initial public offering (IPO) firms. Design/methodology/approach The author utilizes the intended use of proceeds as a proxy variable for the primary market and the investment-to-price sensitivity and the informativeness of stock prices as alternative proxy variables for the secondary market. The compositional data, and non-parametric quantile regressions which are more robust to outliers than standard least square regressions, are employed for Indonesian equity market over the period of 1999-2013. Findings While confirming that firm operating performance can be explained by the firm’s motivation to go public, the author also shows that the operating performance is positively affected by investment-to-price sensitivity and negatively affected by stock price informativeness. The stock prices affect investment decisions by the way that the more liquid a stock is, the more informative its price is, and the more relevant stock prices are in investment decisions. These findings still hold after controlling for ownership structure. Originality/value Departing from the existing literature, the author investigates the role of primary and secondary equity markets for firm performance in an integrated framework because both markets interact closely in reality. The author shows that public listed firms can benefit both from the capital-raising function of the primary market and from the informational role of the stock prices of the secondary market. A measure of stock price informativeness, 1−R2, however, must be understood in the context of thin trading in the sense that the level of liquidity affects the level of stock price informativeness.

scholarly journals Financial Literacy and Stock Price Informativeness: a Cross-Country Study

2018 ◽  
Vol 63 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Anita Todea
Keyword(s):  
Private Information ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Financial Literacy ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Individual Investors ◽  
Specific Information ◽  
Price Informativeness ◽  
Stock Price Informativeness ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Impact

Abstract This paper examines the impact of financial literacy on stock price informativeness in a sample of firms from 20 countries. Using four measures of stock price informativeness, we find a significant relationship between higher financial literacy and higher stock price informativeness. The individual investors’ contribution regarding the incorporation of specific information into stock prices includes private information also and not mere specific information in the general sense. Financial knowledge is the key element that helps individual investors to incorporate specific information into stock prices.

scholarly journals Culture and Stock Price Reaction to Private Information

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 117-130
Author(s):  
Anita Todea
Keyword(s):  
Private Information ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Financial Openness ◽  
Price Informativeness ◽  
Stock Price Reaction ◽  
Stock Price Informativeness ◽  
Developed Stock Markets ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Low Uncertainty

AbstractThis paper examines the impact of culture on stock price informativeness in a sample of firms from 23 developed stock markets. We find that the information content of private information in stock prices is higher in more individualistic countries and in low uncertainty-avoiding countries. Moreover, financial openness stimulates the incorporation of private information into individualistic countries and in low uncertainty-avoiding countries.

MANIPULATION AND EQUILIBRIUM AROUND SEASONED EQUITY OFFERINGS

2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (05) ◽  
pp. 771-792 ◽  
Author(s):  
YAN HAN ◽  
XIN CUI ◽  
ZHIMIN HUANG ◽  
ALLAN ASHLEY
Keyword(s):  
Private Information ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Seasoned Equity Offerings ◽  
Securities And Exchange Commission ◽  
Previous Literature ◽  
Equity Offerings ◽  
Price Informativeness ◽  
Significant Evidence ◽  
Stock Price Informativeness

There exists a widely held belief that informed investors manipulate stock prices prior to seasoned equity offerings (SEO). Contrary to this assertion, a model is developed, which demonstrates there is significant evidence that informed investors not to manipulate trading prior to a SEO. Furthermore, there is an arguement that informed investors to trade the stock in the same direction indicated by their private information. In addition, the model is consistent with previous empirical evidence. Previous literature heavily relies on the Gerard and Nanda (1993) model. The model allows for more than one informed investors, whereas Gerard and Nanda de facto allows for only one. This model setting is not only more realistic to the real world, but also dramatically reverses its conclusion that there exists manipulative trading. It also indicated that following Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Rule 10b-21 and Rule 105, whose intention is to curb this manipulation, the SEO discount will change in either direction. Thus previous literature delineating methodology of utilizing the SEO discount change to test for the existence of manipulative trading is not well grounded. The model also predicts that undervalued firms tend to disclose more information in order to improve the stock price informativeness, whereas overvalued firms tend to do the contrary.

scholarly journals Corporate Governance and Stock Price informativeness: Evidence from an Emerging Market

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 593-605
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shahid Rasheed ◽  
Shahzad Kouser
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Investor Protection ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Governance Mechanism ◽  
Price Informativeness ◽  
Controlling Shareholders ◽  
Stock Price Informativeness

Emerging markets usually have weaker legal and governance environment. The weaker enforcement of investor protection laws leads to a poor information environment. Using data of all the listed non-financial firms from Pakistan stock exchange (PSX), we document the relationship between corporate governance variables and stock price informativeness. The results from two-stage least squares (2SLS) reveal that controlling shareholders in the form of block holding plays an effective role in improving informativeness. Due to the presence of these block ownership, the institutional investors remain largely short term investors and act passively. This behavior of institutional investors encourages managers to extract more cash flows leading to higher synchronicity. These findings suggest market regulators develop such a corporate governance mechanism that not only ensures investor protection but also advise firms to reduce information asymmetry by better disclosure and transparency. More specifically, in the Pakistani context, traditional corporate governance mechanisms through board room regulations may not improve informativeness, and regulators need to regulate the ownership regulations, including family ownership and controlling shareholders.

scholarly journals The impacts of managerial and institutional ownership on firm performance: The role of stock price informativeness and corporate governance

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 115-127 ◽  
Author(s):  
William Cheung ◽  
Scott Fung ◽  
Shih-Chuan Tsai
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Institutional Ownership ◽  
Managerial Ownership ◽  
Price Informativeness ◽  
Internal Governance ◽  
Future Performance ◽  
Stock Price Informativeness

This paper provides new evidence on the relations between managerial and institutional ownerships and firm performance. These relations are found to be affected by firm’s stock price informativeness and corporate governance. Based on a sample of US firms from NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ between 1989 and 2006, we document three important findings. First, managerial ownership and firm future performance are non-linearly related; the positive relation is stronger for firms with less informative prices or more agency problems. This finding suggests that poor governance and uninformative price increase the importance of managerial value creation for their firms by improving internal governance. Second, institutional ownership has a significant positive impact on firm future performance, with larger impact for firms with less informative prices or good governance. However, institutional ownership, which reflects external monitoring, has a weaker positive effect compared to managerial ownership, which controls for internal governance. Third, the interaction between managerial ownership and institutional ownership has a significant positive impact on firm future performance, suggesting that there are synergistic effects of internal and external corporate governance mechanisms in improving firm value.

scholarly journals Corporate governance and the divergence of learning channels

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
William Ming Yan Cheung ◽  
Adrian Lei ◽  
Libin Tao
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Stock Prices ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Informed Trading ◽  
Market Liquidity ◽  
Price Informativeness ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Bid Ask Spread ◽  
Trading Activities ◽  
Stock Price Informativeness

We study the relation between corporate governance, market liquidity and stock price informativeness. Firms with more informative stock prices are associated with larger transaction volume, larger bid-ask spread and better corporate governance. Thisliquidity-informativeness relation is significant for firms with high antitakeover provision (bad corporate governance). However, bid-ask spread is insignificantly associated withprice informativeness for firms with less antitakeover provision (good corporate governance). This supports that firm-specific return variation better measures stock price informativeness when firm has strong corporate governance framework. Our results suggest that (i) more (less) informed trading activities associated with weak (strong) corporate governance, and (ii) corporate governance explains the cross-sectional variation in information efficiency of stock prices. Our results are consistent with theories in financial market learning that investor learn from informed trading activities associated with weak governance firms and informative disclosure from strong governance firms.

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