Abstract:This paper provides evidence that the trade secrets protection increases stock price crash risk. Using a quasi‐experimental setting with the Uniform Trade Secrets Act (UTSA), we find that firms headquartered in states adopting the UTSA tend to have higher stock price crash risk. The results are robust to controlling for other trade secrets laws and the choice of crash risk measures, and they are more pronounced in small firms and firms with high market‐to‐book and low leverage ratios. A detailed mechanism anal… Show more
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