We examine the market reactions to earnings announcements by listed firms connected through ownership links. We find that the parents' investors react to all announcements within the group either immediately or with delay, whereas subsidiaries' investors only react to their own firm's announcements, ignoring predictive information released at the parent level. Our findings suggest that multiple announcements within a group lead to enhanced transparency for parents' investors, who benefit from detailed information on the origin of their firm's earnings. In contrast, subsidiaries' investors appear unaware of ownership links, and behave as inattentive investors.
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