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Stock Fragility and Corporate Investment Decisions: Evidence from Chinese Mutual Funds

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  • Huan Liao

    (Nankai University)

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This paper studies stock price fragility driven by correlated mutual fund trading and its implications for equity volatility and corporate financial policies in the Chinese A-share market. Building on Greenwood and Thesmar (2011), we show that fragility robustly predicts future return volatility and outperforms conventional ownership measures. Firms exposed to higher fragility hold more cash, consistent with precautionary motives, with stronger effects among non-state-owned enterprises. Exploiting China’s alternating mutual fund disclosure regime, we find that fragility constructed from top-ten holdings exhibits greater economic magnitude and statistical significance than that based on full holdings, highlighting the dominant role of core institutional positions. Overall, stock fragility has material effects on both market risk and firms’ real decisions.

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  • Huan Liao, 2026. "Stock Fragility and Corporate Investment Decisions: Evidence from Chinese Mutual Funds," Advances in Economics, Business and Management Research,, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:advbcp:978-94-6239-672-2_53
    DOI: 10.2991/978-94-6239-672-2_53
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