We hypothesize that poor country-level governance, which makes public information less reliable, induces fund managers to increase their use of semi-public information. Utilizing data from international mutual funds and stocks over the 2000-2009 period, we find that semi-public...

We study how information about one firm transmits to otherwise unrelated firms sharing the same major blockholder. Using information on US firms over the 2001–2008 period, we show that the financial conditions of these firms signal the controlling ability of the owner and therefore indirectly...