Local ownership as private information: Evidence on the monitoring-liquidity trade-off

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 83, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 751-792

  Gaspar, Jose Miguel ^a   Massa, Massimo ^b  

^a ESSEC BUSINESS SCHOOL   (France)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Corporate governance; Liquidity; Local ownership; Monitoring; Mutual funds; Private information

Indexed keywords

EID: 33847320533     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2005.10.010     Document Type: Article

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