Financial statement comparability and expected crash risk

Jeong-Bon Kim, Leye Li, Louise Yi Lu and Yangxin Yu

Journal of Accounting and Economics, 2016, vol. 61, issue 2, 294-312

Abstract: This study examines the impact of financial statement comparability on ex ante crash risk. Using the comparability measures of De Franco et al. (2011), we find that expected crash risk decreases with financial statement comparability, and this negative relation is more pronounced in an environment where managers are more prone to withhold bad news. We also provide evidence that comparability can mitigate the asymmetric market reaction to bad versus good news disclosures. Our results suggest that financial statement comparability disinclines managers from bad news hoarding, which reduces investors׳ perceptions of a firm׳s future crash risk.

Keywords: Financial statement comparability; Expected crash risk; Bad news hoarding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G12 M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jacceco.2015.12.003

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