Tunnelling by large shareholders is a problem representative of ownership concentration. Large shareholders may interfere with a firm's information disclosure to support their tunnelling behaviour, causing a high stock price crash risk. Using listed companies in China from 2001 to 2019 as a...

Using a rich database of Chinese firms, we examine the proposition that firms with disproportionately more analysts herding, as measured by a larger herding index value, have higher future stock price crash risk. Our findings are consistent with the proposition and are robust to different...