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Informed Trading in Business Groups, Ownership Concentration, and Market Liquidity / Miguel Leano

Pedraza, Alvaro ; Leano, Miguel

Englisch

Washington, D.C : The World Bank [2016], 2016

1 Online-Ressource (38 p)

Erscheint auch als: Druck-Ausgabe- Leano, Miguel: Informed Trading in Business Groups, Ownership Concentration, and Market Liquidity. - Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2016

DOI: 10.1596/1813-9450-7688

Business groups, which are collections of publicly traded companies with significant amount of common ownership, dominate private sector activity in developing countries. This paper studies how information flows within these groups by analyzing the trading behavior of pension fund managers in firms that belong to the same group. The paper shows that while pension fund managers are momentum traders on non-affiliated companies, they trade in anticipation of future abnormal returns in affiliated firms. Ownership concentration and business group ties exacerbate information asymmetries, discouraging investment and depressing stock market participation. Using the merger and acquisition activity among pension fund managers as a natural experiment, the paper provides evidence that increases in stock ownership concentration, via the threat of informed trading, adversely affect liquidity. The results indicate that cross-ownership structures and extensive investor-industry relations might curb the expected benefits from the presence of institutional investors, limiting market development

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