Chang, Xin; Cheng, Louis T. W.; Kwok, Wing Chun (Kaz); … - 2022
We extend Jin and Myers’ (2006) model to derive the relation between stock price crash risk and operating leverage (i … price crash risk increases, and (ii) the negative effect of crash risk on operating leverage is more pronounced when firms … that higher crash risk leads to a less sticky cost behavior. In addition, crash-risk-driven operating deleveraging …