Artikel

Does top executives' US experience matter? Evidence from US-listed Chinese firms

Foreign firms face enormous obstacles in attracting investors and analysts when issuing securities in the United States. We use US-listed Chinese firms as our research sample and find that firms that hire top executives (i.e., Chief Executive Officer [CEO] or Chief Financial Officer [CFO]) with work experience in the US or educational qualifications from the US attract more US institutional investors and analysts. Further, we find that CFOs' US experience dominates the results. Corroborating our results, we further find that firms with US-experienced CFOs are more likely to hold conference calls and voluntarily issue management forecasts, which suggests that CFOs with a US background are better at communicating with US investors and analysts and acting in alignment with US norms compared with Chinese CFOs. Collectively, our results suggest that hiring a CFO with a US background could facilitate cross-listed foreign firms to lower US investors' and analysts' information disadvantage.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Journal: China Journal of Accounting Research ; ISSN: 1755-3091 ; Volume: 9 ; Year: 2016 ; Issue: 4 ; Pages: 267-282 ; Amsterdam: Elsevier

Classification
Management
Subject
US-listed Chinese firms
Top executives' US experience
Analysts following
Institutional holdings

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Li, Jingjing
Wei, Minghai
Lin, Bingxuan
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Elsevier
(where)
Amsterdam
(when)
2016

DOI
doi:10.1016/j.cjar.2015.11.002
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  • Artikel

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  • Li, Jingjing
  • Wei, Minghai
  • Lin, Bingxuan
  • Elsevier

Time of origin

  • 2016

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