A recent reform in China, the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect program, made a subset of Chinese stocks investable for foreign investors, thus partially opening China's stock market. We use this reform to examine the quantity and quality effects of stock market liberalization on corporate...

Using the extreme returns of firms in unrelated industries of institutional shareholders' portfolios as exogenous variations in institutional investor distraction (Kempf et al., 2017), we find a positive and significant relation between institutional shareholder distraction and stock price crash...

Exploring staggered quasi-exogenous regulatory changes in China, we find that banking sector FDI significantly reduces the likelihood of stock price crashes of domestic listed firms. The effect is more pronounced among firms with ex-ante lower disclosure quality and worse performances, which...

To stabilize their financial markets, many governments implement a number of rescue programs. Direct purchase intervention—rarely observed in the past due to the concern of moral hazard problems and aversion to government ownership—has been commonly considered a potential way to stabilize...

We revisit the research question centering around the impact of the market for corporate control on stock price crash risk. Using a newly-developed takeover index from Cain, McKeon, and Solomon (2017) that comprehensively considers existing state takeover laws, federal statutes, and state court...