In the past decades, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has attracted increasing attention, with Corporate Environmental Responsibility (CER or Environmental CSR) playing an ever important role. This paper aims to study whether and how Chinese shareholders are sensitive to the disclosure of...

This paper investigates the differential responses by managers to institutional investors during site visits and to retail investors during online Q&As. We find that the gap in firms' responses to different types of investors increases the potential for comment letters to be sent to firms and...

This paper investigates the differential responses by managers to institutional investors during site visits and to retail investors during online Q&As. We find that the gap in firm responses to different types of investors increases the potential for comment letters to be sent to firms and...

We use a difference-in-difference research design to examine the effect of an exogenous shock to a firm's R&D investment from Chinese regulations regarding technology exports revised in 2008. We document that these technology export restrictions (TERs) decrease a firm's R&D investment....

As households reduce discretionary spending in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, concerns are high that a resulting fall in aggregate demand can lead to a lasting recession post-COVID-19. Consequently, policies aimed at stimulating consumer spending are of key interest to governments working to...

Economic policy uncertainty relates to the complexity and unpredictability of the macroeconomic policy formulation process. Such uncertainty affects firm innovation. By constructing an innovation strategic option model, we find that economic policy uncertainty will have a negative influence on...

A semi-closed environmentally-extended input-output (EEIO) model, endogenizing the household into industrial sectors to analyse the Australian direct greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Understanding the direct GHG emissions from industrial sector and household sectors can assist policy makers to...