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Government debt and stock price crash risk: International Evidence

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submitted on 2024-03-21, 06:01 and posted on 2024-03-21, 06:01 authored by Hamdi Ben-Nasr, Sabri Boubaker

We add to the literature on the economic outcomes of government debt and argue that government debt increases crash risk via two channels: (i) hoarding bad news and (ii) tax avoidance. Based on a large international sample, our results indicate that stock crash risk is positively associated with government debt. Our conclusions are robust when we treat endogeneity issues, and our tests confirm the validity of bad news hoarding and tax avoidance as channels through which government debt influences stock price crash risk.

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Published in: Journal of Financial Stability
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
See article on publisher's website: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jfs.2024.101245

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Open Access funding provided by the Qatar National Library.

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  • English

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Elsevier

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  • 2024

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This Item is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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  • Qatar University
  • College of Business and Economics - QU

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