This paper examines whether suppliers suffer from information externalities when their major customers make layoff announcements. We find suppliers, on average, experience a negative stock price reaction around their major customers' layoff announcements. Furthermore, the negative price effect...

The literature shows that investor attention to customer-supplier disclosure increases when suppliers' information arrival is anticipated. Due to the widespread of city lockdowns in China and the implementation of social distancing to control the COVID-19 pandemic, investor attention to...