Foreign institutional ownership and demand for accounting conservatism: evidence from an emerging market

Mohamed Khalil, Aydin Ozkanc () and Yilmaz Yildiz ()
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Aydin Ozkanc: University of Huddersfield
Yilmaz Yildiz: University of Huddersfield

Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2020, vol. 55, issue 1, No 1, 27 pages

Abstract: Abstract This study investigates how foreign institutional ownership interacts with accounting conservatism in an emerging market setting. We posit that weak investor protection and a high degree of information asymmetry between insiders and outside investors increase demand for conservative reporting in firms operating in emerging markets. Foreign investors in this setting have informational disadvantages relative to their domestic peers and have difficulties in getting access to data. Using a sample of Turkish firms, we find that foreign institutions (particularly foreign corporate investors) demand more conservative reporting in the investee firms. Moreover, we show that this association is more pronounced among firms with greater asymmetric information problems and growth opportunities. Our additional tests reveal that the direction of causality flows from foreign institutional ownership to conservatism, and not vice versa.

Keywords: Accounting conservatism; Foreign ownership; Institutional investors; Emerging market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G2 G34 M41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/s11156-019-00834-3

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