Tsai, H-JS, Wu, Y and Xu, B orcid.org/0000-0003-3512-5834 (2021) Does capital market drive corporate investment efficiency? Evidence from equity lending supply. Journal of Corporate Finance, 69. 102042. ISSN 0929-1199
Abstract
The increased equity lending supply (ELS) in the equity loan market, available for short sellers to borrow, exposes a firm to greater short selling threats. Considering short sellers' strong incentives to uncover firm-specific information and monitor managers, we hypothesize that short selling threats, proxied by ELS, enhance corporate investment efficiency. We find that ELS significantly reduces managerial tendencies to underinvest (overinvest) especially for firms prone to underinvest (overinvest). The effect of ELS on investment efficiency is stronger for firms with higher information asymmetry and weaker corporate governance, confirming short sellers' role in mitigating information and agency costs. However, short selling risk weakens the effect of ELS. Our evidence is robust to endogeneity checks and suggests that corporate investment can be driven by a particular capital market condition: the amount of lendable shares in the equity loan market.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. This is an author produced version of an article published in Journal of Corporate Finance. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Business (Leeds) > Accounting & Finance Division (LUBS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 15 Jul 2021 15:00 |
Last Modified: | 16 Jan 2023 01:15 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2021.102042 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:176040 |
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