Institutional investors' corporate site visits and corporate innovation

X Jiang, Q Yuan - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2018 - Elsevier
This study investigates whether and how institutional investors' site visits affect corporate
innovation. Using all Chinese firms listed in the Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2009 to …

Seeing is believing: Analysts' corporate site visits

Q Cheng, F Du, X Wang, Y Wang - Review of Accounting Studies, 2016 - Springer
This study examines the impact of corporate site visits on analysts' forecast accuracy based
on a sample of such visits to Chinese listed firms during 2009–2012. We find that analysts …

Institutional stock ownership and firms' cash dividend policies: Evidence from China

M Firth, J Gao, J Shen, Y Zhang - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2016 - Elsevier
Agency theory suggests that outside shareholders prefer higher dividend payouts in order to
reduce the free cash flows of firms that are under the insiders' control. Our study investigates …

Do analysts gain an informational advantage by visiting listed companies?

B Han, D Kong, S Liu - Contemporary Accounting Research, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We examine the improvements in forecast accuracy that result from analysts' visits to listed
companies. We find that company visits significantly enhance the accuracy of the analysts' …

Come on over: Analyst/investor days as a disclosure medium

MP Kirk, S Markov - The Accounting Review, 2016 - publications.aaahq.org
Our study introduces analyst/investor days, a new disclosure medium that allows for private
interactions with influential market participants. We also highlight interdependencies in the …

The impact of board gender diversity and foreign institutional investors on firm innovation: evidence from China

QU Ain, X Yuan, HM Javaid - European Journal of Innovation …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose This study investigates the impact of board gender diversity and foreign ownership
on innovation in Chinese firms. Design/methodology/approach The authors use data for …

Institutional investor information network, analyst forecasting and stock price crash risk

XL Gong, J Liu - Research in International Business and Finance, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper, we construct the information network of fund investors based on the theory of
social relationship networks and examine its impact of fund information sharing with analysts …

Institutional investors' corporate site visits and pay-performance sensitivity

W Wu, X Zhang, Z Zhou - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2022 - Elsevier
This study investigates whether and how institutional investors' site visits affect executive
compensation contracts. Using Chinese listed firms on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange from …

Does it pay to communicate with firms? Evidence from firm site visits of mutual funds

S Liu, Y Dai, D Kong - Journal of Business Finance & …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
By using a unique dataset on mutual fund visits to listed firms in China, we investigate
whether mutual funds are able to obtain private information or benefit from their …

Seeing is not necessarily the truth: Do institutional investors' corporate site visits reduce hosting firms' stock price crash risk?

S Gao, F Cao, X Liu - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2017 - Elsevier
This study examines the impact of institutional investors' corporate site visits (CSVs) on stock
price crash risk. We find that the frequency of institutional investors' CSVs is positively …