The Moderating Role of Institutional Ownership on the relationship between Confucianism Culture and Stock Price Crash Risk

According to the research of Jebranet et al (2019), one of the factors that can affect the Stock Price Crash Risk of companies, is the Confucianism Culture (managers) that so far, this attention has not been considered in the financial and accounting research literature. Managers of companies based in Confucianism are more influenced by social norms and they spread bad news in a timely manner as a result, unethical managerial approaches (Moral hazards) are curbed, and even this will lead to the immunization of managerial behaviors, leads to a reduction in the Stock Price Crash Risk of companies and also institutional ownership be used as a corporate governance mechanism can weaken the negative relationship between the culture of Confucianism and the Stock Price Crash Risk of companies. Therefore, the purpose of this research is to investigate the Moderating role of Institutional Ownership on the relationship between Confucianism Culture and Stock Price Crash Risk. To achievement this research, Information on financial statements of 116 listed companies has been collected in the period of 2009 to 2020. To test the research hypotheses, the logit and multivariate regression model with panel data using fixed and random effects methods has been used. To measure the Confucianism Culture, the criterion of Geographical proximity-based from model Du (2015) has been used. The results show that there is not relationship between the Confucianism Culture and the Stock Price Crash Risk. Also, Institutional Ownership does not weaken the negative relationship between Confucianism Culture and the Stock Price Crash Risk of companies. The Stock Price Crash Risk does not realize the consequences of the Confucianism Culture which is due to the prevailing conditions in the Iranian capital market and also, the variable of Confucian culture is a new issue and its theoretical foundations as well as its importance have not been tangible or obvious to managers, shareholders and other stakeholders of companies. In Iranian companies, institutional ownership has not been able to play an effective role in explaining the relationship between the Confucianism Culture and the Stock Price Crash Risk.