We analyze 228 executive compensation contracts voluntarily disclosed by Chinese listed firms and find that central-government-controlled companies disclose more information in executive compensation contracts than local-government-controlled and non-government-controlled companies. Cash-based...

We analyze 228 executive compensation contracts voluntarily disclosed by Chinese listed firms and find that central-government-controlled companies disclose more information in executive compensation contracts than local-government-controlled and non-government-controlled companies. Cash-based...

The reform to convert non-floating shares to floating in China provides a setting in which shares are subject to different liquidity constraint. We show that the severity of this constraint is inversely related to the extent to which earnings information is reflected in the share prices....

We analyze 228 executive compensation contracts voluntarily disclosed by Chinese listed firms and find that central-government-controlled companies disclose more information in executive compensation contracts than local-government-controlled and non-government-controlled companies. Cash-based...

China's listed companies often exchange corporate assets with unlisted affiliates, such as their parent companies, which is rarely observed in the United States. We find that listed companies that have been incompletely restructured from former state-owned enterprises and those that are in sound...

We examine whether and how the failure in performance commitment by an acquiree affects the acquirers’ recognition of goodwill impairment. Based on a sample of A-share-listed firms during 2008-2016, we document the following evidence. First, both the likelihood and amounts of goodwill...

From 1996 to 1998, listed companies in China were required to achieve a minimum return on equity (ROE) of 10 percent in each of the previous three years before they could apply for permission to issue additional shares. Hence, there was a heavy concentration of ROEs in the area of just above 10...

Using China's 2008 four-trillion-yuan economic stimulus as a laboratory and a proprietary loan data set, we study how a large state-owned publicly listed bank maneuvers between the government and public investors and tries to balance social and business objectives, while satisfying the bank...

We examine how China's adoption of a new set of Chinese Accounting Standards (CAS) that is substantially converged with the IFRS affects the managerial pay-for-accounting performance sensitivity of publicly listed Chinese firms. We find that central-government-controlled firms adopted an...

This paper examines whether and how auditors are disciplined for audit errors. Taking advantage of the long history of auditor identity data from China, we find that signing auditors with client restatements are likely to lose the privilege of signing the audit reports of public clients....