{"title":"Litigation and Stock Price Crash Risk under Securities Regulation","authors":"Changyun Hu, Yanfang Zeng","doi":"10.1016/j.frl.2025.107701","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Based on the data of A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2007 to 2020, the mechanism of litigation's influence on the risk of stock price collapse is empirically examined. We find that litigation can effectively inhibit share price crash risk, and there is heterogeneity like property rights. The higher the external attention and internal governance, the stronger the governance effect of litigation; the extended analysis examines the market response to litigation under the new Securities Law, and the new regulation strengthens the response of crash risk to litigation events and has regulatory spillover effects. The conclusions of this paper are based on the institutional background of the new Securities Law, which is of great significance for deepening administrative enforcement reform and strengthening judicial supervision, improving the new securities civil litigation system and enhancing the quality of listed companies.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":12167,"journal":{"name":"Finance Research Letters","volume":"84 ","pages":"Article 107701"},"PeriodicalIF":7.4000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Finance Research Letters","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1544612325009602","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"BUSINESS, FINANCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Based on the data of A-share listed companies in Shanghai and Shenzhen from 2007 to 2020, the mechanism of litigation's influence on the risk of stock price collapse is empirically examined. We find that litigation can effectively inhibit share price crash risk, and there is heterogeneity like property rights. The higher the external attention and internal governance, the stronger the governance effect of litigation; the extended analysis examines the market response to litigation under the new Securities Law, and the new regulation strengthens the response of crash risk to litigation events and has regulatory spillover effects. The conclusions of this paper are based on the institutional background of the new Securities Law, which is of great significance for deepening administrative enforcement reform and strengthening judicial supervision, improving the new securities civil litigation system and enhancing the quality of listed companies.
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