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Managerial Career Concerns and Informational Feedback Effects: Theory and Evidence
We study the effect of managerial career concerns on informational feedback from stockmarkets. We set up a model in which managers with career concerns can learn information from their own information production or from stock price feedback. A key insight from the model is
that if managerial career concerns are high, a less frictional market induces more information production by both managers and speculators. As a result, although price informativeness improves, managers learn less from the stock market, contrasting with the classical view in
the literature on stock price feedback. Exploiting a quasi-natural experiment, we document evidence consistent with model predictions.