We investigate the impact of manager political connection and founder status on tunneling in China's listed firms from 2004 to 2010. By classifying the political connections into three dimensions with two categories of controlling ownerships, we find that overall manager political connection is...

This paper uses a sample of Chinese firms to examine the impact of corporate opacity on the relationship between family control and firms' cost of debt. We find that family control is associated with a lower cost of debt on average, and a negative impact exists mainly in firms with relatively...

We examine the impact of family control on the likelihood of accounting misstatements and market reactions to subsequent restatements. Using a matched-firm approach, we find that family control overall reduces the incidence of misstatements, consistent with the notion that controlling families...

We investigated the impact of manager's political connections and founder status on tunnelling in China's listed firms from 2004 to 2010. By classifying the political connections into three dimensions with two categories of controlling ownerships, we find that the overall political connections...

We investigate the impact of investor site visits on corporate tax avoidance behavior by using a sample of A-share listed nonfinancial firms on Shenzhen Stock Exchange from 2012 to 2021. We find that investors’ site visits effectively inhibit excess corporate tax avoidance. We confirm the...