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Does Short-Selling Affect Accounting Conservatism?
- Title
- Does Short-Selling Affect Accounting Conservatism?
- Authors
- Yim; Sang-Giun; Kwon; Sewon
- Ewha Authors
- 권세원
- SCOPUS Author ID
- 권세원
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- Issue Date
- 2024
- Journal Title
- Korean Accounting Review
- ISSN
- 1229-3288
- Citation
- Korean Accounting Review vol. 49, no. 1, pp. 1 - 25
- Keywords
- accounting conservatism; informativeness; negative information; short sellers; short-selling
- Publisher
- Korean Accounting Association
- Indexed
- SCOPUS; KCI
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- Document Type
- Article
- Abstract
- As the volume of short-selling transactions in the Korean capital market increases, so does the need to understand the impact of short-selling. This study examines the association between short-selling and financial reporting by analyzing the accounting conservatism of the target firms. By reflecting private bad news in stock prices, short-selling functions as a channel of information for market participants. Insiders can delay the announcement of bad news when short sellers are targeting a company to lessen the negative impact of the short-selling. This should manifest as a reduction in conditional conservatism in response to short-selling. Using the Basu (1997) model and a sample obtained from the Korean Stock Exchange, this study investigates this hypothesis. This study’s empirical findings support the hypothesis that short-selling reduces the accounting conservatism of the target firms. This phenomenon is more pronounced in firms with a poor information environment, as measured by factors such as firm size, analyst following, the presence of credit ratings, return volatility, board independence, and ownership structure. This implies that a firm’s strategy of countering short-selling through managing accounting conservatism is less likely to be effective in firms with a good information environment. © 2024, Korean Accounting Association. All rights reserved.
- DOI
- 10.24056/KAR.2024.02.001
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- 경영대학 > 경영학전공 > Journal papers
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