The Influence of Customer-Supplier Linkages on Stock Returns

42 Pages Posted: 5 Aug 2014 Last revised: 8 Aug 2014

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Jamie Alcock

University of Oxford

Ramona Meyricke

UNSW Australia Business School, School of Risk & Actuarial Studies; CEPAR, University of New South Wales; Swiss Re, Australia

Date Written: August 5, 2013

Abstract

Investors in firms with concentrated supplier or customer bases should not assume that idiosyncratic shocks to an economically linked firm disappear in a well-diversified portfolio. Customer-supplier linkages between firms are a channel by which shocks to a single firm can influence the stock returns of other, linked firms. When the distribution of connectivity in a firm’s economic network is fat-tailed, individual firm-level shocks do not average out in aggregate. Consequently, firms with concentrated supplier or customer bases have higher average returns than firms with more diversified supplier or customer exposures.

Keywords: Customer-supplier linkages, economic linkages, diversification, stock returns

JEL Classification: G22, G23, C23

Suggested Citation

Alcock, Jamie and Meyricke, Ramona, The Influence of Customer-Supplier Linkages on Stock Returns (August 5, 2013). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2476250 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2476250

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Ramona Meyricke

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