In today's globalized world, people are increasingly mobile and often need to communicate across different languages. Learning a new language is an investment in human capital. Migrants must learn the language of their destination country, but even non-migrants must often learn other languages...

New economy companies often use convertible and redeemable preferred shares with equity and debt characteristics as financing tools to reduce risk during their early stages of growth. According to relevant accounting standards, such preferred shares should be classified as financial liabilities...

In this paper, using 3,994 observations of China listed firms between the years 1995 and 2001 as a sample, we find that there is a significantly positive correlation between the state ownership and cash dividends, and a significantly negative correlation between the public ownership and stock...

New economy companies often use convertible and redeemable preferred shares with equity and debt characteristics as financing tools to reduce risk during their early stages of growth. According to relevant accounting standards, such preferred shares should be classified as financial liabilities...

This study investigates the predictability of a fixed uncertainty index (UI) for realized variances (volatility) in the international stock markets from a high-frequency perspective. We construct a composite UI based on the scaled principal component analysis (s-PCA) method and demonstrate that...

Considering the feasibility in China¡¯s market and adopting existing pricing models on financial guaranty products and credit derivatives, a pricing model on financial guaranty products is built under the actuarial methodology. In the model, the geometric Brownian motion with correlation is...

We use a case study to illustrate how different acquisition methods can result in different amounts of goodwill recognised on financial statements in China. China Merchants Bank adopted a two-step acquisition method: first, it acquired 53% of the shares of Hong Kong's Wing Lung Bank to gain...

Since securities markets are subject to a great deal of uncertainty and complexity, the returns of securities cannot be accurately estimated by historical data. In this case, it must use experts’ knowledge and judgment. Therefore, we investigate portfolio selection problems in such uncertain...

This paper investigates how to improve prediction accuracy of stock realized volatility using a large set of predictors. Exploiting normalized positive adjusted R-square and significant t statistic of predictor obtained from the in-sample result as weight, we develop two simple and effective...

This paper evaluates how investor sentiment contributes to the explanation of idiosyncratic volatility from a firm-level perspective in the Chinese stock market. After constructing a comprehensive firm-specific investor sentiment (FSIS) index using principal component analysis, we find a...