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More online interaction, more stock liquidity:——Evidence from Chinese stock exchange online interaction platform

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  • Kun Zhang
  • Zhenyi Hu
  • Jianfei Shen
  • Yuanyuan Wang

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This paper investigates the impact of online interaction between investors and enterprises on stock liquidity, using data from A-share listed companies in China from 2010 to 2021. Firstly, our findings reveal that more frequent interaction leads to better stock liquidity, and this result remains consistent across various robustness tests. Secondly, we observe that the expected tenure of senior executives and the ratio of institutional investor ownership exert a significant moderating effect on this relationship. Thirdly, this effect varies across enterprises at different development stages and with different ownership structures, being more pronounced in growing and privately-owned companies. Furthermore, this paper finds an inverted U-shaped relationship between reply length and stock liquidity, indicating that excessively long replies may introduce noise and negatively affect liquidity. This study provides new insights into how online interactions can improve market efficiency and offers practical implications for corporate governance and investor relations.

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  • Kun Zhang & Zhenyi Hu & Jianfei Shen & Yuanyuan Wang, 2024. "More online interaction, more stock liquidity:——Evidence from Chinese stock exchange online interaction platform," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(9), pages 1-21, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0308160
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0308160
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