for companies from China in period 2004-2011. We offer the evidence that, similarly to evidence from studies on reverse … mergers focusing on China, SPACs that focus on China are not different in their characteristics from other SPACs. We test for … the performance of the SPACs focused on China and show that their performance is not inferior to the performance of other …

The role of government shareholding in corporate performance is central to an understanding of China?s newly privatized …

major actor in China's domestic capital allocation, with an active role in strategic financing and restructuring of key …

development of many aspects of corruption, organized crime, markets, and the state. The lack of attention to informal systems can …

corruption, may affect the access to credit for micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). Using a sample of 68 …-2014, we investigate whether the level of corruption affects their demand for bank loans. Overall, we find that the degree of … corruption seems to play a role in the applications for bank loans when small firms are under investigation. Interestingly …