第二百叁十九期财务与会计学术论坛
发布者:xieying 发布时间：2018-04-25 09:15:24 浏览数： 次 [ ]
时间：2018年4月26日（周四）15:00-16：30
地点：嘉庚二号楼501教室
题目：Economic Consequences of Hiring Wall Street Analysts as Investor Relations Officers
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报告人：Zhongwei Huang，Assistant Professor in finance at City, University of London
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主持人：胡金帅，厦门大学财务管理与会计研究院副院长、副教授
论文摘要：
This paper examines economic consequences associated with the emerging practice of hiring financial analysts as investor relations officers (IRO). We posit that analysts-turned-IROs have a competitive advantage in communicating with investors, thereby lowering the effort expended by the investment community to process corporate disclosures. Using a unique manually-collected dataset on the employment history of IROs (compiled from LinkedIn, Capital IQ, RelationshipScience.com, and appointment press releases) and a difference-in-differences research design with matched control sample, we first show that 8-K disclosure readability improves after firms hire former analysts as IROs through reductions in length, complexity, and the proportion of uncertain financial terms. We also find some evidence that these companies are more likely to host analyst/investor days. Most importantly, we find increases in analyst following, institutional investors, and stock liquidity after hiring a former analyst as IRO. Overall, our findings suggest that firms benefit from hiring Wall Street analysts as IROs.
报告人介绍：
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黄钟伟为我院优秀硕士毕业生，于法国ESSEC Business School获得博士学位。他已在国际知名学术期刊Journal of Corporate Finance 等发表2篇论文，并有1篇论文进入国际会计学权威期刊The Accounting Review二审。
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