Due to limited attention, investors may react sluggishly to complex and implicit information, such as shocks transferred across fundamental linkages. We explore how efficiently China' s stock market incorporates fundamental linkage information into stock prices. Using shared analyst coverage as...

This article applies general social interaction model to measure contagion across stock markets in a given trade network. We divide the whole sample period into five types of subperiods according to the extent of negative and positive coexceedances. We find that interdependence and contagion in...

The recent financial crisis has accelerated the debate of executive remuneration. Theoretically, there are divergences between the design of executive remuneration suggested by agency theory and reality. In this study, we contribute to this debate by re-visiting the theories underlying the...

In this article, we contribute to the earnings management literature by addressing the issue of Related Party Transactions (RPTs) during a firm's Initial Public Offering (IPO) process. We regard RPT-based earnings management as a kind of agency problem in the context of Chinese IPOs, and argue...