時間：2019年10月30日（周三下午），16:00-18:05

地點：學院南路校區主教404

研讨會詳細議程：

16:00-17:00

報告一：Do Short Sales Affect a Firm’s Financial Constraints?

報告人：李昕宇（中國人民大學）

摘要：Using a sample of Chinese A-share listed firms from 2007-2017, we examine the impact of short sales on a firm’s financial constraints. We develop three conceptual frameworks, the negative information effect, the undervaluation effect, and the deterrent effect, based on the prevailing theories and conduct an in-depth empirical analysis using the difference-in-differences, propensity score matching, and instrumental variable methods. Our findings suggest that: (1) Short sales generally worsen a firm’s financial constraints. (2) A shortable firm’s financial constraints deteriorate more seriously in the case of higher credit risk or information asymmetry. (3) When a firm becomes shortable, its negative media coverage increases, external financing cost rises, and the amount of new external financing decreases. (4) The adverse impact of short sales on financial constraints is more pronounced for inefficient state-owned firms and mainly concentrates in the short term. Collectively, these results support the underlying logic of the negative information effect. However, further analysis shows that: (1) The deterrent effect also exists but is much weaker than the negative information effect. (2) The strength of the two effects will “wan and wax” with time or circumstances. Thus, the deterrent effect may outweigh the negative information effect by easing a firm’s financial constraints in a few cases, such as in the long term after short sales deregulation and when short sales magnitude is low or the managers are more sensitive to the decline of stock price. Our paper provides new insights into the impact of shorts sales on financial constraints, revealing some unique Chinese features compared to the US market and offering valuable lessons to other emerging markets.

17:05-18:05

報告二：Business Group Affiliation and Media Slant

報告人：汝毅（清華大學）

摘要：Using a novel dataset in China that connects newspapers to publicly traded companies which are affiliated with the same business group, we examine whether business group affiliation affects the quality of media reporting. We find that the newspapers are more optimistic towards companies with which they are connected through affiliated business groups. Further analyses reveal that the optimism bias varies with the affiliated business group’s incentive, its voice in the newspaper, the firm’s accounting performance and financial leverage, along with some traits of business groups and newspapers. In addition, we find muted investor reactions to the tone of the news articles by connected newspapers. Finally, we show that business group affiliation weakens the information and monitoring role of newspapers. Overall, our evidence suggests the impairment of journalistic objectivity when media and firms have ownership affiliation.

報告人簡介：

李昕宇，中國人民大學商學院财務與金融系博士研究生。研究方向為公司戰略、賣空對公司财務行為的影響以及僵屍企業的成因與經濟後果。曾在《中國工業經濟》、《南開管理評論》、《中國會計評論》、《中國軟科學》等期刊發表過論文。

汝毅，清華大學經濟管理學院會計學博士研究生，曾獲國家留學基金委資助赴美國哥倫比亞大學商學院會計系訪學1年。研究方向為媒體獨立性、信息披露的外部性、銀行治理，以及企業國際化。研究成果被國際會議Review of Accounting Studies Conference以及《金融研究》、《會計研究》、《财經研究》等期刊錄用。