Chang, Xin; Chen, Yangyang; Zolotoy, Leon - 2016
We find that stock liquidity increases stock price crash risk. To identify the causal effect, we use the decimalization … of stock trading as an exogenous shock to liquidity. This effect is increasing in a firm’s ownership by transient … accompanied by greater selling by transient investors, but not blockholders. Our results suggest that liquidity induces managers …