This paper examines the effect of state control and ownership structure on leverage decision of firms listed in Chinese stock market. Our results show that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) have higher leverage ratios than non-SOEs, and SOEs in regions with a poorer institutional environment have...

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...

This paper examines the use of the payout ratio as a predictor of a firm's future earnings growth. Recent evidence rejects the hypothesis that firm which retain a large portion of their earnings have strong future earnings growth. Higher dividend payout ratios instead correspond to higher future...