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We examine the impact of mutual fund ownership on stock price informativeness in China. Existing evidence shows that stock price informativeness is low in China, and attributes this to firms' lack of disclosure incentives under the weak investor protection institutional environment. Mutual funds...
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We examine the impact of state ownership on share price informativeness by using the unique setting of the Split Share Structure Reform in China. This reform abolishes the trading restriction of shares held mainly by state shareholders, which in turn renders their wealth more sensitive to share...
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Supplier financing, or trade credit, is an increasingly important source of financing for a company. This paper tests two alternative views on the relation between trade credit and future stock price crash risk: monitoring and concession. We present robust evidence that supplier financing is...
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This paper examines the relation between bank branch deregulation and corporate borrowers' stock price crash risk. Using a large sample of U.S. public firms over the period 1962-2001, we provide robust evidence that intrastate branch reform reduces firms' stock price crash risk. Our finding is...
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We examine the impact of financial regulation policy uncertainty on mispricing of earnings among banks, which are heavily regulated and strongly influenced by such policies. The tension underlying our study stems from two opposing effects. To the extent that economic uncertainty generated by the...
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We find that firms with a larger proportion of short-term debt have lower future stock price crash risk, consistent with short-term debt lenders playing an effective monitoring role in constraining managers' bad-news-hoarding behavior. The inverse relation between short-maturity debt and future...
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This paper investigates the impact of legal institutions on the external governance role of equity analysts in enhancing the corporate information environment. By analysing a sample of Chinese listed firms between 2003 and 2013, we find that analyst coverage is positively related to stock price...
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