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He, Guanming, Bai, Lu and Ren, Helen Mengbing (2019) Analyst coverage and future stock price crash risk. Journal of Applied Accounting Research, 20 (1). pp. 63-77. doi:10.1108/JAAR-09-2017-0096 ISSN 0967-5426.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1108/JAAR-09-2017-0096
Abstract
Purpose
Whether financial analysts play an effective role as information intermediaries and monitors has triggered a wide spread of debate among academics and practitioners to date. The purpose of this paper is to complement this debate by investigating the association between analyst coverage and firm-specific future stock price crash risk.
Design/methodology/approach
Regression analysis is based on a large sample of US public firms and the crash risk measure of Hutton et al. (2009). Potential endogeneity concerns are alleviated by restricting the sample period to the post-Regulation-FD period and conducting an analysis of the impact threshold for a confounding variable method per Larcker and Rusticus (2010).
Findings
Evidence reveals that a high level of analyst coverage is associated with lower future stock price crash risk. Furthermore, the negative association between analyst coverage and stock price crash risk is stronger for firms that have high financial opacity. Additionally, analyst forecast pessimism is negatively associated with future crash risk.
Research limitations/implications
Our research provides evidence in support for the view that financial analysts play an active information intermediary role in a way that increases information transparency of a firm and reduces its crash risk. Also, our study offers support for the view that analysts perform an effective monitoring role in a way that constraints management’s bad news hoarding activities and reduces future crash risk.
Practical implications
This study is of interest to investors who seek analyst reports for their investment decision making and for information providers who demand external financing. The findings of this study also have some other important implications for practitioners, given the economic and welfare consequences of stock price crashes.
Originality/value
This study offers support for the view that analysts serve positive roles as information intermediaries and monitors in the US stock market.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Warwick Business School | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Financial planners, Financial services industry, Stocks -- Prices | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Journal of Applied Accounting Research | ||||||
Publisher: | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd | ||||||
ISSN: | 0967-5426 | ||||||
Official Date: | 11 February 2019 | ||||||
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Volume: | 20 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 63-77 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.1108/JAAR-09-2017-0096 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2019, Emerald Publishing Limited | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 10 April 2019 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 10 April 2019 | ||||||
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