Government's actions according with words and stock price crash risk
In this paper,through the manual reading of each city's government work report to construct the government's actions according with words,and takes the A-listed companies in China from 2003 to 2018 as the sample to examine the impact of the degree of government's actions according with words on the stock price crash risk.This study finds that the degree of government's actions according with words is higher,the corporate stock price crash risk is lower.The above conclusion remains stable after a series of robustness tests.Moreover,the mechanism test finds that,on the one hand,at the regional level,the degree of government's actions according with words is higher,the regional group norms are stronger and the level of rule of law is higher;on the other hand,this paper also finds that the degree of government's actions according with words is higher,the level of the corporate earnings management and the abnormal tone of the MD&A reports are lower.In addition,the heterogeneity analysis shows that when a company doesn't have political networks,the negative relationship between the degree of government's actions according with words and corporate stock price crash risk is stronger.This paper has certain enlightenment significance for how the government can promote the modernization of governance capabilities and complete the goal of high-quality development.
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