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Performance commitment in M&As and stock price crash risk

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  • Jingjing LI
  • Yingwen GUO
  • Minghai WEI

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This paper investigates the impact of performance commitment in M&A transactions on acquiring firms’ future crash risk. We find a positive relation between performance commitment and acquiring firms’ future crash risk, and this result is more pronounced in related-party M&A deals. These findings are consistent with our prediction that performance commitment regulation may bring about negative consequences by providing the parties with private information an opportunity to overstate the values of inferior target assets; the stock price will suddenly drop when the accumulated hidden bad news release to the market. We further systematically discuss the shortcomings in the theories and regulation related to performance commitment in M&As. We document that the current performance commitment contract is designed as a costless promise with low default cost, resulting in the information insiders make use of the regulation loopholes to aggressively expropriate from less-informed minority shareholders.

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  • Jingjing LI & Yingwen GUO & Minghai WEI, 2019. "Performance commitment in M&As and stock price crash risk," China Journal of Accounting Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 7(3), pages 317-344, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:rcjaxx:v:7:y:2019:i:3:p:317-344
    DOI: 10.1080/21697213.2019.1695948
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    1. Sun, Zeyu & Kong, Ningning & Wu, Lei & Bao, Yu, 2024. "Does contingent payment in M&As induce acquirers’ earnings management? Evidence from performance commitment," Research in International Business and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 69(C).
    2. Liu, Yu & Yang, Lingxuan & Xiong, Lu, 2023. "Performance commitments and the properties of analyst earnings forecasts: Evidence from Chinese reverse merger firms," International Review of Financial Analysis, Elsevier, vol. 89(C).
    3. Song, Di & Shen, Na & Su, Jun, 2023. "A catering perspective of performance commitment-evidence from acquisitions in China," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 78(C).

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