China's Closed Pyramidal Managerial Labor Market and the Stock Price Crash Risk

2017 ◽  
Vol 93 (3) ◽  
pp. 105-131 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donghua Chen ◽  
Jeong-Bon Kim ◽  
Oliver Zhen Li ◽  
Shangkun Liang
Keyword(s):  
Labor Market ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Negative Association ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Crash Risk ◽  
The Political ◽  
Market Forces ◽  
Risk Averse ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Managerial Labor Market

ABSTRACT Managers of China's state-owned firms work in a closed pyramidal managerial labor market. They enjoy non-transferable benefits if they choose to stay within this system. The higher up are they in this labor market hierarchy (their political ranks), the fewer are their outside employment opportunities. Due to career and wealth concerns, they are cautious and risk-averse when managing firms. We examine the effect of managers' political ranks on firms' stock price crash risk and find a negative association. This association mainly exists in firms with younger managers and managers with shorter tenure. Further, this effect is only significant in regions with weak market forces, in firms without foreign investors, without political connections, and during periods with no local government leaders' or managers' political promotions. We conclude that the political ranking system reduces the stock price crash risk. JEL Classifications: G30; J33.

Foreign Investors, External Monitoring, and Stock Price Crash Risk

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 829-853
Author(s):  
Jeong-Bon Kim ◽  
Xiaoxi Li ◽  
Yan Luo ◽  
Kemin Wang
Keyword(s):  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Reporting Quality ◽  
Crash Risk ◽  
Accrual Quality ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
External Monitoring ◽  
Risk Reducing ◽  
Local Firms

We investigate whether foreign investors help to reduce local firms’ future stock price crash risk through their external monitoring. We find that the entrance of foreign investors is associated with a significant reduction in local firms’ future crash risk. Further investigation reveals that foreign investors help to improve local firms’ financial reporting quality from the perspectives of accrual quality, conservatism, and annual report tone management. The evidence is consistent with our conjecture that foreign investors play an important external monitoring role, which reduces managerial bad-news hoarding and thereby lowers local firms’ future crash risk. We also find that the crash risk–reducing role of foreign investors is more pronounced when foreign investors are more familiar with the institutional background of the host country, when they have stronger incentives to monitor local firms, and when local firms have higher governance efficacy. A variety of robustness checks reveals that our results are unlikely to be driven by potential endogeneity.

scholarly journals Short selling and stock price crash risk

2020 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-76
Author(s):  
Jay M. Chung ◽  
Shu-Feng Wang
Keyword(s):  
Stock Price ◽  
Short Selling ◽  
Crash Risk ◽  
Prediction Ability ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Short Sellers ◽  
Informed Traders ◽  
Shed Light

This paper aims to investigate short selling and stock price crash risk. The authors find that short selling is positively associated with one-month-ahead stock price crash risk, consistent with the literature showing that short sellers are informed traders. The authors attribute this prediction ability to the information short sellers receive from foreign investors with high levels of ownership in a firm. The results shed light on policy issues regarding short selling regulation.

scholarly journals Retail Investor Attention, Foreign Investors and Crash Risk: Evidence on Indonesian Shariah-compliant Equities

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aang Kunaifi ◽  
Geodita Woro Bramanti ◽  
Muhammad Ibnu Sina Al Hanif
Keyword(s):  
Capital Market ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Crash Risk ◽  
Foreign Investor ◽  
Investor Attention ◽  
Foreign Investors ◽  
Quarterly Data ◽  
Negatively Associated ◽  
Retail Investor ◽  
Active Attention

This study analyzes how retail investor attention and foreign investors are related to stock price crash risk in shariah-compliant equities. Using quarterly data in Islamic stocks that listed on the Indonesian Capital Market during 2016- 2019, we show that retail investor attention and foreign investors are negatively associated with stock price crash risk. The retail investor attention and foreign investors diminish stock price crash risk in shariah-compliant equities. In conclusion, the benefit of active attention that retail investor pay and increasing foreign investor mitigate crash risk in shariah-compliant equities

Institutional Investors’ Monitoring and Stock Price Crash Risk: Evidence from Politically Connected Firms

2018 ◽  
Vol 21 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850028 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chwee Ming Tee ◽  
Angelina Seow Voon Yee ◽  
Aik Lee Chong
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Positive Association ◽  
Institutional Ownership ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Crash Risk ◽  
Different Types

Motivated by recent studies on political connections and stock price crash risk, this study investigates whether there is an association between politically connected (POLCON) firms and stock price crash risk. Further, we examine whether institutional investors’ ownership can moderate this association. Using a dataset of Malaysian firms for the period 2002–2012, we show that POLCON firms are associated with higher risk of stock price crashes. However, the positive association between POLCON and stock crashes is attenuated by higher institutional ownership, implying effective monitoring. Finally, we find that only local institutional investors can significantly mitigate the positive association between POLCON firms and stock price crash risk. This suggests that different types of institutional investors can produce different monitoring outcomes in POLCON firms.

Political connections and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China

2016 ◽  
Vol 147 ◽  
pp. 90-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin-hui Luo ◽  
Manning Gong ◽  
Yilong Lin ◽  
Qifeng Fang
Keyword(s):  
Stock Price ◽  
Political Connections ◽  
Crash Risk
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