We explore the influence of investor structure on stock market stability from the perspective of stock price crash risk. First, overall, institutional investors’ shareholdings are positively related to firms' stock price crash risk. Second, after dividing institutional investors into...

This study examines the impact of stock market liquidity on a stock price crash, using firm data from Borsa Istanbul for the period 2009-2019. The results show that higher stock liquidity increases the likelihood of stock price crashes, but this positive link is not driven by blockholder...

The relationship between changes in GDP and unemployment during the 2008 financial crisis differed significantly from previous experiences and across countries. We study firm-level decisions in France, Germany, Japan, the UK, and the US. We find significant differences between the response of US...

Using a large sample of the Chinese public firms, this study documents that the government intervention via state ownership can mitigate the stock crash risk. The mitigation effect of state ownership is more pronounced in the crisis periods and in the sample of firms with shares held by central...