This paper investigates the impact of import competition on energy efficiency among firms in China. Using a difference-in-differences approach that exploits industry- and firm-level tariff reductions following China's accession to the WTO, we examine the effects of reduced output tariffs on coal...

We investigate the impact on employability when job candidates signal different personal tastes for competitions. In three experiments, with close to 3,000 participants in total, we show that non-competitive candidates risk being perceived as less productive, while those who signal a willingness...

The increasing awareness of corporate social responsibility (CSR) makes the investment in CSR activities a strategy to distinguish firms in a competitive environment. In practice, a greenwashing phenomenon is identified where a firm uses CSR investment as a marketing gimmick and only invests in...

We examine the effect of product market competition on firms' earnings management practices. Using exogenous variation in import competition, we find that heightened competition reduces both accrual-based and real earnings management. We also show that several measures of competition from past...

We examine one of the secondary effects of the granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China in October 2000: lower than expected house price appreciation. We consider housing prices for 2,800 US counties in a panel data setting for the years 1990 to 2020. We find that the 2000...

The efficiency of an industrial enterprise depends not only on the production program, sales volume, quality of products, pricing policy and other similar factors, but also on its competitive advantages in the industry market.Modern business conditions have made adjustments to the process of...

This paper investigates the discrepancy among the multiple ranking lists of the same performers. It treats ranking lists as some well-positioned information products rather than the repetitive measures of performance. Hence, discrepancy stems from the differentiation rather than the measure...

Environmental regulation within the legal system plays a significant role in the Porter hypothesis. Using the establishment of an environmental court with Chinese characteristics, we construct the time-varying difference-in-differences model and use it to examines the rationality of the...

This study investigates how a company's internal control team affects their investment decision making, considering the level of industry competition within the South Korean capital market. A model obtained from the literature was employed to test the hypothesis. When industry competition is...