Stock liquidity and stock price crash risk

We find that stock liquidity increases stock price crash risk. To identify the causal effect, we use the decimalization of stock trading as an exogenous shock to liquidity. This effect is increasing in a firm’s ownership by transient investors and nonblockholders. Liquid firms have a higher likeliho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Chang, Xin, Chen, Yangyang, Zolotoy, Leon
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10356/90182
http://hdl.handle.net/10220/47221