Does short sales deregulation affect qualitative information disclosure?

Jie He and Kam C. Chan

Accounting and Finance, 2023, vol. 63, issue S1, 1351-1380

Abstract: We examine the impact of short sales deregulation on firms' disclosure of non‐financial qualitative information. Our simple analytical model predicts that, after short sales deregulation and when the cost of disclosing proprietary qualitative information to the firm and its executives is sufficiently high, shortable firms respond by disclosing less proprietary and more non‐proprietary qualitative information than non‐shortable firms. Using a textual analysis of qualitative information about the supply chain, available in the management disclosure and analysis sections of the annual reports of a sample of Chinese firms, and applying a staggered difference‐in‐differences research design, we find evidence consistent with the model's prediction.

Date: 2023
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