Analyst Attention and Corporate Financing Constraints: Evidence from China
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https://doi.org/10.54691/bcpbm.v15i.223Keywords:
Financing Constraints; Information Asymmetry; Analyst Coverage; China; Firm Size.Abstract
This paper explores the effect of analyst coverage on financing constraints by selecting listed companies in the Shanghai Stock Exchange and Shenzhen Stock Exchange as a sample for the study. This research finds that analyst coverage mitigates financing constraints after controlling all other variables that affect both investors’ investment decisions and investee’s financing decisions. This result still holds after the robustness check using pooled OLS model with a fixed-effect model and balanced panel data. Additionally, the heterogeneity analysis implies that analyst coverage is negatively related only to financing constraints that large-size firms encounter, whereas analyst coverage does not ease financing constraints that small-size firms encounter. Overall, the results of the study provide regulators with insights into how to improve the information transparency in the capital market, to help investors make optimal investment decisions, and to facilitate companies’ external financing.
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