TITLE:
Can Analyst Coverage Reduce Stock Price Crash Risk?—Evidence from China
AUTHORS:
Dongye Huang
KEYWORDS:
Crash Risk, Analyst Coverage, Star Analyst
JOURNAL NAME:
American Journal of Industrial and Business Management,
Vol.8 No.4,
April
28,
2018
ABSTRACT: Utilizing
the date from 2010 to 2016 in China stock market, this paper studies the
relation between analyst coverage and stock price crash risk. The result shows that security analyst coverage increases the risk
of stock crash. When further dividing the
analysts into star analysts and non-star analysts, the research found that the
star analyst coverage can decrease stock price crash risk, and non-star analyst
coverage can increase the stock price crash risk. And with the
rise of star analyst ratio, the stock price crash risk will be lower.