@article {ONeill:May 2003:0732-8516:197, author = "ONeill M.", author = "Swisher J.", title = "Institutional Investors and Information Asymmetry: An Event Study of Self-Tender Offers", journal = "The Financial Review", volume = "38", year = "May 2003", abstract = "

Our research compares the asymmetric information costs of firms with low levels of institutional ownership to those with high levels. We use self-tender offers as an information event. Our results show that higher institutional ownership, particularly a higher number of institutional investors, is associated with a lower degree of informed trading. These results persist even after we control for differences in trading activity among our sample firms.", pages = "197-211(15)", url = "http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/bpl/fire/2003/00000038/00000002/art00002" doi = "doi:10.1111/1540-6288.00042" }