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The use of the R2 as a measure of firm-specific information: a cross-country critique

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Recent research uses the degree of stock returns co-movement as a measure of the quality of a country’s information environment. It has been argued that stronger property rights, better corporate governance regimes and more efficient enforcement mechanisms lead to prices incorporating more firm-specific information and, therefore, co-moving less with the market. In this paper, we use a much more comprehensive international data set than in prior research, encompassing forty countries over twenty years, to evaluate the reliability of this approach in a cross-country setting and to analyse the behaviour of the measure used. Our results demonstrate severe limitations in the use of co-movement as a measure of information quality. We highlight the instability of the measure and show that it can produce results that are often difficult to reconcile with such an informational explanation.

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Information R2 Firm-specific Information Market-wide Information Volatility Disclosures Co-Movement Cross-country Information Environment Synchronicity

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ALVES, P. ; PEASNELL, Ken ; TAYLOR, Paul - The Use of the R2 as a Measure of Firm-Specific Information: A Cross-Country Critique. Journal of Business Finance & Accounting. ISSN 0306-686X. Vol. 37, N.º 1-2 (2010), p. 1-26

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