Accounting Papers
Document Type
Journal Article
Date of this Version
2000
Publication Source
Journal of Accounting Research
Volume
38
Start Page
171
Last Page
202
DOI
10.2307/2672914
Abstract
This paper investigates whether the quality of a firm’s disclosure practices affects the composition of a firm’s institutional investor base and whether this association has implications for a firm’s stock return volatility. The findings indicate that firms with higher disclosure quality, as measured by AIMR rankings, have greater institutional ownership, but the particular types of institutional investors that are attracted to disclosure quality tend to have no net impact on firms’ stock return volatility. In contrast, improvements in disclosure quality are shown to produce contemporaneous increases in ownership primarily by transient-type institutions. Such institutions can be characterized as having a short-term investment focus along with a propensity to trade aggressively. The findings indicate that firms with disclosure quality improvements resulting in higher transient institutional investor ownership experience subsequent increases in stock return volatility.
Copyright/Permission Statement
This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:
Brian J. Bushee and Christopher F. Noe Journal of Accounting Research Vol. 38, Supplement: Studies on Accounting Information and the Economics of the Firm (2000), pp. 171-202
, which has been published in final form at DOI: 10.2307/2672914.This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving http://olabout.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-820227.html#terms.
Recommended Citation
Bushee, B. J., & Noe, C. F. (2000). Corporate Disclosure Practices, Institutional Investors, and Stock Return Volatility. Journal of Accounting Research, 38 171-202. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2672914
Date Posted: 27 November 2017
This document has been peer reviewed.