We examine the ability of intergroup contact to ameliorate the effect of in-group bias on economic outcomes. Specifically, we employ randomized experiments to test whether actual and imagined contact is effective in reducing prejudice between indigenous Malawian shopkeepers (in-group), and their...

We investigate the influence of management disclosure to the timeliness of earnings announcement based on the Scheduled Disclosure Policy in China as well as the requirements on Earnings Predict and Express. Our finding suggests that the traditional timing patterns still remain in China market,...

This paper examines the determinants, the current signal effect and the long-term one from the timeliness of the annual report with the proxy of the short term signal effect and the information transparency next period respectively with the data from the A Stock Market in China from 2004 to...

This paper investigates whether zombie firms demonstrate a tendency to invest in the financial sector, a practice we term financialization strategy. Unlike those in the United States, Japan, and Europe, we find that zombie firms in China are not necessarily small and that they rely heavily on...

The tension that negotiators face between claiming and creating value is particularly apparent when exchanging offers. We tested whether presenting a choice among first offers (Multiple Equivalent Simultaneous Offers; MESOs) reduces this negotiator dilemma and increases economic and relational...

A large body of literature attests to the growing social divide between urban residents and rural-urban migrants in China’s cities. This study uses a randomised experiment to test the effect of intergroup contact on attitudes between a group of urban adolescents and a group of rural-urban...