The purpose of preliminary is to present a broad agenda of theoretical and empirical modeling about the fundamental links between the quality of governance, financial development and economic development. The main theoretical predictions and evidence are of a large importance in terms of...

In Chinese culture, certain digits are lucky and others unlucky. We test how such numerological superstition affects financial decision in the China IPO market. We find that the frequency of lucky numerical stock listing codes exceeds what would be expected by chance. Also consistent with...