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| Clientele Change, Liquidity Shock, and the Return on Financially Distressed Stocks by Zhi Da of the University of Notre Dame, and April 8, 2007 Abstract: This paper provides empirical evidence supporting the view that a sharp rise in a firm's default likelihood causes a change in its shareholder clientele. As institutions decrease their holdings of the firm's share, trading volume and cost increase; the order imbalance measure indicates large selling pressure. The resulting liquidity shock leads to a further concession in the stock price, recovering though, in the subsequent month. Such price recovery explains the first-month abnormal high return earned by stocks with high default likelihood documented in Vassalou and Xing (2004). The abnormal high return is therefore mostly reward for providing liquidity when it is most needed rather than compensation for bearing a systematic default risk. |   
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