Product Market Threats and Stock Crash Risk

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Li, Si; Zhan, Xintong
• 署名单位: Wilfrid Laurier University; Chinese University of Hong Kong
• 刊物名称: MANAGEMENT SCIENCE
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0025-1909
• DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.2017.3016
• 发表日期: 2019
• 页码: 4011-4031
• 关键词: MARKET COMPETITION; product market threats; stock crash risk

摘要

This paper examines the effect of product market threats on firms' stock crash risk. Competitive pressure from the product market aggravates managers' incentive to withhold negative information. When negative information is accumulated to a tipping point, the accumulated information comes out all at once and leads to an abrupt and large decline in stock price. Using a measure of product market threats, our regressions find that firms facing more threats are more prone to stock crashes. This result is confirmed by an instrumental variable analysis and a difference-in-difference analysis with an exogenous shock to market competition.