This study examines companies with two classes of shares that entitle their holders to
identical cash flow and voting rights but that are available to mutually exclusive sets of
investors: A shares to domestic investors and B shares to foreign investors. Price
differences between A and B shares are higher in firms with a greater disparity in
the disclosures that they make to domestic and foreign investors. This association is
more pronounced when the cost (benefit) of information transfer is higher (lower). The
results suggest that disclosure disparity creates meaningful differences in investors’
average information precision across A and B shares and thus influences the crosssectional
variation in price differences.