Tunnelling by large shareholders is a problem representative of ownership concentration. Large shareholders may interfere with a firm's information disclosure to support their tunnelling behaviour, causing a high stock price crash risk. Using listed companies in China from 2001 to 2019 as a...

Listed companies commonly appoint their incumbent annual auditors to audit a target company during a merger and acquisition (M&A). However, some companies choose an alternative auditor to perform the M&A audit. To understand the consequences of this apparently unconventional auditor choice, we...

This article examines the effect of anti-takeover provisions on executive excess compensation and find a positive association. Five further findings are as follows. First, among specific provisions, the anti-takeover provisions mainly used to delay the takeover process have a stronger effect on...

Based on the data of A-share listed central state-owned enterprises (CSOEs) and non-state-owned listed companies in China from 2003 to 2019, we use propensity score matching and the difference-in-difference method to examine the impact of CSOEs' income distribution policy on corporate cash...

Using the data of all A-share listed companies from 2009 to 2018, we find that the group finance companies inhibit the dynamic adjustment speed of capital structure to their optimal level of the related listed companies. The reason is that the controlling shareholders may occupy the related...

As an important part of the national political system, government audits play a significant role in supervising and restricting enterprises. Since 2010, the National Audit Office of China has repeatedly disclosed the problems regarding enterprises' M&A to prevent the loss of state-owned assets....