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Share pledge and earnings persistence: evidence from China

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  • Mingyuan You
  • Xinruo Wang
  • Joanna (Jingwen) Zhao

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This paper studies the effect of share pledges on earnings persistence and the mechanism that explains the effect. We find that both the existence of share pledges and the percentages of pledged shares are negatively related to firms’ earnings persistence, and the results are robust to the DID analysis. Our results indicate that firms with share pledges are more likely to engage in upward earnings management, resulting in diminished earnings persistence. We further find that the negative effect of share pledges on earnings persistence is most significant among non-SOEs, followed by local government-controlled SOEs, and insignificant among central government-controlled SOEs. The effect is mitigated when firms are subject to better audit monitoring or have higher institutional ownership.

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  • Mingyuan You & Xinruo Wang & Joanna (Jingwen) Zhao, 2024. "Share pledge and earnings persistence: evidence from China," Asia-Pacific Journal of Accounting & Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 31(6), pages 1123-1138, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:raaexx:v:31:y:2024:i:6:p:1123-1138
    DOI: 10.1080/16081625.2023.2216708
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