We investigate rights issues and open offers in Hong Kong. We observe that the greater the severity of firms’ management-agency problems, the more unfavourably shareholders tend to react, leading to more negative cumulative abnormal returns or rights forfeiture. Controlling shareholders do not...

This article investigates the effects of privatization on corporate performance in China. We focus on two very different industries: the manufacturing industry--the largest (relatively) competitive industry in China--and the basic material industry--the largest industry protected and closely...

The present study extends the international body of evidence on executive compensation by offering a novel account of the interaction of CEO gender with executive remuneration and firm performance in the Chinese market place. Examination of more than 10,000 firm-year observations, spanning the...

We theorized that student test score performance will be positively related to the percentage of school district revenues raised from local taxes and with salary levels of school district administrators. Using both fixed and random effects panel analyses, we examine data for 217...

Purpose – This study aims to examine the effect of the Securities and Exchange Commission's regulation fair disclosure (Reg. FD) on analyst forecast performance for pre-Reg. FD closed-call (CLC) and open-call (OPC) firms compared with the non-conference-call (NCC) firms in the post-Reg. FD...

This paper examines the cross-sectional variability in the market valuation of R&D expenditures in the pre-packaged computer software industry. Consistent with some prior research, this paper argues that R&D spending is valued heterogeneously by the stock market, and derives hypotheses regarding...