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Institutional Cross-Ownership Of Peer Firms And Investment Sensitivity To Stock Price, Young Jun Cho, Holly I. Yang
Institutional Cross-Ownership Of Peer Firms And Investment Sensitivity To Stock Price, Young Jun Cho, Holly I. Yang
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Theory suggests that stock price guides managers in corporate decisions as managers learn from price. We reason that cross-ownership lowers information processing costs and increases industry specialization, improving revelatory price efficiency (Bond, Edmans, and Goldstein 2012). Consistent with our expectations, we find that a firm’s investment-q sensitivity increases as its cross-ownership increases, suggesting that cross-ownership facilitates managerial learning from price and thus investment efficiency. We strengthen the causal inference by conducting a difference-in-differences analysis using financial institution mergers as an identification strategy. We also find that the increase in the investment-q sensitivity associated with cross-ownership is more pronounced for firms …
Do Managers Learn From Analyst Participation In Conference Calls?, Amanda Aw Zhi Xin Yong, Young Jun Cho, Holly I. Yang
Do Managers Learn From Analyst Participation In Conference Calls?, Amanda Aw Zhi Xin Yong, Young Jun Cho, Holly I. Yang
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While research finds that conference calls are informative to the market and analysts, they can also be informative to managers as analysts’ questions can provide a feedback effect. Using a sample of conference call transcripts from 2002 to 2018, we find that greater analyst participation, as measured by the number of words spoken by analysts relative to the number of words spoken by managers during conference calls, is associated with higher accuracy in managers’ subsequent earnings forecasts. Cross-sectional tests show that this positive association is more pronounced when managers use more uncertain words in conference calls, when analysts use a …