The stock market reaction to losing or gaining foreign private issuer status

Burnett, Brian M., Jorgensen, Bjorn N. and Pollard, Troy J. (2016) The stock market reaction to losing or gaining foreign private issuer status. Journal of Accounting and Public Policy . ISSN 0278-4254 (In Press)

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Abstract

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission designates foreign-domiciled firms with securities trading in the U.S. markets as either foreign private issuers (FPIs) or domestic filers and permits exemptions from U.S. domestic securities regulation for firms that qualify as FPIs. We study the stock market reaction to foreign-domiciled firms that lose or gain FPI status for an arguably exogenous reason while maintaining their cross-listing status. After loss of FPI status, foreign firms are required to comply with U.S. domestic issuers’ continuous filing requirements, such as filing quarterly financial statements using U.S. GAAP, disclosure of insider trading, and compliance with corporate governance requirements of U.S. domestic issuers. We document a significantly positive market reaction when foreign firms lose their exemptions and must comply with regulatory requirements of U.S. domestic issuers. Further, we find that the market reacts negatively to an increase in financial statement requirements and reacts positively to fully adopting U.S. corporate governance requirements.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-accoun...
Additional Information:	© 2016 Elsevier Inc.
Library of Congress subject classification:	H Social Sciences > HG Finance
Sets:	Departments > Accounting
Date Deposited:	28 Sep 2016 15:00
URL:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/67900/

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