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Type Journal Article
Scope Discipline-based scholarship
Title The impact of blockchain related name changes on corporate performance
Organization Unit
Authors
  • Erdinc Akyildirim
  • Shaen Corbet
  • Ahmet Sensoy
  • Larisa Yarovaya
Item Subtype Original Work
Refereed Yes
Status Published in final form
Language
  • English
Journal Title Journal of Corporate Finance
Publisher Elsevier
Geographical Reach international
ISSN 0929-1199
Volume 65
Page Range 101759
Date 2020
Abstract Text This paper examines the impact of blockchain and crypto-related name changes on corporate and financial performance of the corporations. We document several pieces of evidence suggesting that companies who partake in such “crypto-exuberant” naming practices become more volatile and offer substantial and persistent stock market premiums as a reward for their corporate identity change. However, the retroactive name changes harm firm's short-term profitability and have a dampening effect on financial leverage of the company. This paper advances the Dotcom effect literature by providing novel results on the changing traditional pathways of price discovery and information flows after the announcement of corporate name changes to blockchain-related names. The identified contagion channels display that crypto-exuberant companies become more susceptible to cryptocurrency markets, which should interest regulators and investors.
Official URL https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929119920302030
Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2020.101759
Other Identification Number merlin-id:20606
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