THE IMPACT OF DIRECT BENEFITS OF CONTROL ON THE PRICE INFORMATIVE VALUE OF VOLUNTARY INFORMATION DISCLOSURE: AN EMPIRICAL STUDY OF THE IRANIAN PUBLIC LISTED COMPANIES
Vol. 11, Nr. 4/2012 , p564..586
Author(s):
Gholamreza ZANDI Alireza SHAHABI
Keywords:
Price informative, voluntary disclosure, direct benefits of control, blockholders
Abstract:
This
paper seeks whether the voluntarily information disclosed by public companies
listed on the TSE where the institutional blockholders possess the
Direct Benefit of Control (DBC) is useful and relevant information as a proxy
for presenting true financial picture. We assumed that the relevant voluntary
disclosure indicates more transparency. We chose the annual reports of all
public companies listed on the main board of TSE in 2009. Two types of indices
were constructed, an index for the extent of voluntary disclosure (VD), and an
index for the price informative voluntary disclosure (PID). The results show
that the institutional blockholders meet the needs of market for information by
disclosing a lot of information (VD) but with less-relevant content in order to
cover up their perks’ consumptions. The blockholders would like to show the
market is efficient with no information asymmetry however such transparency is
not genuine. This paper may contribute to the literature whereas the presence
of blockholders shall increase the extent of voluntary disclosure (VD) but the transparency
may decline.
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