The Effect of Environmental Performance on Stock Price Crash Risk with Emphasis on Conservative Accounting in TSE

Investors and shareholders are two groups that have a special interest in risk and returns information. So, the effect of environmental performance on the risk of stock price crashes is the most important information that is considered by users. The present study examines the impact of companies' environmental performance on the risk of stock price crash with an emphasis on accounting conservatism in the Tehran Stock Exchange. This research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlational in nature. To achieve the research goal, 109 companies were selected from the companies listed on the Tehran Stock Exchange during the years 1390 to 1398 by systematic elimination sampling method and a total of 981 years of the company was considered for analysis. To study the relationships between variables, multivariate regression was used to fit the logistic regression pattern. Also, the combined data method was used to test the hypotheses. The findings show that environmental performance has a negative and significant effect on the risk of stock price crashes. But accounting conservatism as a moderating variable undermines this relationship