support of the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(Grant No.2023A1515010802);the Guangdong Province Universities and Colleges Pearl River Scholar Funded Scheme 2019 and the National Natural Science Foundation of China(NSFC Grant No.72132010)。
Ownership type,legal system evolution and their interaction significantly affect the incentives and behaviors of independent directors.We use the 2019 Securities Law revision as an exogenous shock to examine how state...
support of the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the Humanities and Social Sciences Youth Foundation,Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China。
The rapid pace of digitalization has given rise to concerns about its influence on job roles.Our findings reveal a substitution effect on accounting employees.This effect is more evident in private firms,firms with hi...
funded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.72172029,71971046,72272028);the National Social Science Foundation of China(Grant No.21FJYB032);a Project from the Educational Department of Liaoning Province(Grant No.LJKR0462).Professional English language editing support provided by AsiaEdit(asiaedit.com).
We analyze China Securities Index Co.,Ltd.(CSI)environmental,social and governance(ESG)scoring data,which incorporate Chinese characteristics,to assess the impact of ESG performance on corporate debt financing costs.O...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant number 71972076];the Guangdong Philosophy and Social Science Foundation[grant number GD23SJZ06];the National Social Science Fund of China[grant number 22BGL075].
The latest business practice in the Chinese venture capital(VC)market involves the active participation of non-financial firms,as limited partners,in VC funds.Exploiting a unique hand-collected dataset from China,we f...
Using China’s Cybersecurity Law(CSL)as an exogenous shock,I examine how personal data security affects stock crash risk.I find that the stock crash risk of treatment firms(which collect personal data)significantly de...
support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(72272164,71872196,72272169);the National Social Science Foundation of China(23&ZD060,21&ZD145,19ZDA098).
Using data on Chinese listed companies for 2008-2018,we find that firms participating in overseas operations,proxied by overseas subsidiaries,generally have higher financial asset allocations than other firms.At the m...
support from the National Social Science Fund of China(grant number:20BJY029).
We examine auditor responses to the voluntary resignation of independent directors.We show that auditors respond by increasing audit fees or rescinding engagement with their clients,but not by increasing their audit e...
By employing machine learning techniques and the Word2Vec model,we quantify the micro-level implementation of Industrial Internet technology in Chinese manufacturing firms from 2010 to 2022.This provides empirical evi...
In this study,we find that relative to firms with less media coverage,stock price sensitivity to positive(negative)earnings surprises in earnings announcements of firms with greater media coverage is stronger(weaker)....
supported by the Major Program of National Fund of Philosophy and Social Science of China(No.19ZDA105).
In this study,we take a machine learning-based approach to measure institutional investor attention to corporate social responsibility(CSR)issues when communicating with firms during site visits.We find that instituti...