Publication Type

Working Paper

Version

publishedVersion

Publication Date

4-2025

Abstract

We argue that cross-ownership increases the amount of private information in stock price, enhancing the ability of stock price to provide feedback to managers. Consistent with this argument, we find greater cross-ownership heightens a firm’s investment-q sensitivity. This effect is stronger for firms with a lower propensity for voluntary disclosure and for firms whose managers hold less private information. Furthermore, we find that cross-ownership is negatively associated with the sensitivity of a firm’s investment to its peers’ stock prices. Additionally, cross-ownership has a stronger impact on the investment-q sensitivity when measured among investors who trade more actively the firm’s shares. By using financial institution mergers as an identification strategy, we strengthen the causal inference. Overall, our results suggest that cross-ownership helps increase revelatory price efficiency (RPE), potentially leading to more efficient corporate decisions.

Keywords

cross-ownership, institutional investors, managerial learning, feedback effect of prices

Discipline

Accounting | Corporate Finance

Research Areas

Corporate, Finance and Securities Law

First Page

1

Last Page

56

Identifier

10.2139/ssrn.3682404

Publisher

SMU School of Accountancy, Paper No. 2025-212

City or Country

Singapore

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Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3682404

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