<link rid="b16">Gruber (1996)</link> and <link rid="b35">Zheng (1999)</link> report that investors channel money toward mutual funds that subsequently perform well. <link rid="b31">Sapp and Tiwari (2004)</link> find that this "smart money" effect no longer holds after controlling for stock return momentum. While prior work uses quarterly U.S. data, we employ a...

We study the relationship of corporate governance policy and idiosyncratic risk. Firms with fewer antitakeover provisions display higher levels of idiosyncratic risk, trading activity, private information flow, and information about future earnings in stock prices. Trading interest by...