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Chinese Journal of Management Science ›› 2023, Vol. 31 ›› Issue (11): 24-36.doi: 10.16381/j.cnki.issn1003-207x.2021.0874

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The Value Effects of Cash, Inventory and Social Responsibility of Firms under the Impact of Major Emergencies: New Evidences from the COVID-19 Shock

Ai-fan LING1(),Jia ZHOU2,Le TANG3   

  1. 1.School of Economics and Finance, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 201620, China
    2.School of Finance, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang 330013, China
    3.SISU Library, Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai 201620, China
  • Received:2021-04-30 Revised:2021-07-24 Online:2023-11-15 Published:2023-11-20
  • Contact: Ai-fan LING E-mail:aiffling@163.com

Abstract:

The emergency of COVID-19 epidemic causes the fast dropping of GDP and prevents the development of world economics. Most of companies emerge the large loss, and even lots of companies had gone bankrupt during covid-19 epidemic. For corporate finance respective, the question attracts our attention: which corporate characteristics and what mechanisms can help the companies to alleviate the shocks of COVID-19 epidemic. It attempts to reveal the value effects of corporate characteristics such as cash, inventory and social responsibility in this paper. By analyzing the response of company stock prices to the impact of COVID-19, it focus on the role of corporate cash, inventory and social responsibility scores in stabilizing company stock prices under the shock of the epidemic, and the effects of other corporate characteristics are compared such as market to book ratio, size, leverage ratio and asset turnover ratio.RETit=α+β1INVTi×COVIDt+β2CASHi×COVIDt+β3LnCSRi×COVIDt+β4COVIDt+β5INVTi+β6CASHi+β7LnCSRi+φ'Xi+IFE+PFE+FFE+εit.Where is the return rate of stock, and the cross-term INVTi×COVIDt?CASHi×COVIDt and LnCSRi×COVIDt are the union impacts of corporate cash, inventory, social responsibility and COVID-19 epidemic.To check the impacts of corporate cash, inventory and social responsibility on the company equity return during the COVID-19 epidemic, the following regression equation is used. The daily return rates from Jan. to April 2020 of stocks from 1470 firms of A-share market are used, which is not include into ST firms, financial corporates, housing and other public management corporates. There are 116,507 daily return rates. To test efficiently the impacts of corporate characteristics on the shocks of COVID-19 epidemic and avoid the Endogenous problem in the regression, all data of corporate characteristics are chosen at the end of 2019, before COVID-19 epidemic.All data is from CSMAR database.Our empirical results show that cash, social responsibility and market to book ratio have significant positive value effects, while corporate inventory has not that effect. The higher the companies holding cash, social responsibility score or market to book ratio before the epidemic, the greater the effect on alleviating the decline of stock price and stabilizing the rise of stock volatility. Besides, for companies in provinces or industries with more severe epidemics, cash and social responsibility levels have more significant effects on the company's ability to stabilize the equity return. Only when the market liquidity increases or the financing constraint of the company decreases, the inventory level become to emerge a positive value effect to the decline of the stock price. This study has a certain reference value for the company how to carry out crisis prevention management, and is of great significance to encourage the company to participate in social responsibility activities and understand the value of social responsibility to the company.

Key words: the COVID-19, cash holdings, inventory, social responsibility

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