Using brokerage account data from China, we study investment decision making in an emerging market. We find that Chinese investors make poor trading decisions: the stocks they purchase underperform those they sell. We also find that Chinese investors suffer from three behavioral biases: (i) they...

Our study examines whether ownership structure and boardroom characteristics have an effect on corporate financial fraud in China. The data come from the enforcement actions of the Chinese Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC). The results from univariate analyses, where we compare fraud and...

The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) is the regulatory body that enforces securities laws and regulations in the People's Republic of China. Somewhat akin to the SEC in the U.S., the CSRC carries out investigations to identify and prosecute securities fraud. The aim of this study is...

We examine the effectiveness of price limits on Chinese A shares and investigate the characteristics of those stocks that hit their price limits more frequently. We find that the effect of price limits is asymmetric for the A shares in upward and downward price movements and different for...

About twenty years ago, China set about reforming its moribund economy by introducing certain elements of free market capitalist economics. One reform was the partial privatization of many State Owned Enterprizes (SOEs) and listing the shares in them on the stock exchanges of Shanghai and...