Do analysts matter for governance? Evidence from natural experiments

Building on two sources of exogenous shocks to analyst coverage (broker closures and mergers), we explore the causal effects of analyst coverage on mitigating managerial expropriation of outside shareholders. We find that as a firm experiences an exogenous decrease in analyst coverage, shareholders...

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Main Authors: Chen, Jonas Tao, Harford, Jarrad, Lin, Chen
Other Authors: Nanyang Business School
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2015
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/106948
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25250