A firm's risk-taking behavior can have powerful implications for its employees and shareholders, and even surrounding communities. Corporate risk-taking may associate with firms' affiliation with the government and the incentives of their highest-ranking executives, rather than with strategic...

Net income adjustments resulting from mandatory 2005 IFRS adoption in Europe are value relevant for financial and non-financial firms. Differences in relevance of the aggregate adjustment and adjustments related to several IFRS standards, for financial and non-financial firms and across country...

Using firm-level data from 28 developing and transition countries, we investigate how judicial quality affects firm exports through relationship-specific investment. We find that a good legal system significantly increases exports among firms that use more customized goods as intermediate...

We investigate bank risk taking, efficiency and their relation to law enforcement using a unique sample of 133 Chinese city commercial banks across 31 regions for the 1999–2008 period. We find that stronger law enforcement tends to promote greater bank risk taking in the region. Furthermore,...

This paper investigates the relationship between market concentration, risk-taking, and bank performance using a unique dataset of the BRIC banks over the period 2003–2010. We find a negative association between market concentration and performance, in support of the “quiet life”...

Based on Chinese city-level data from 1999 to 2012 and controlling for geological, environmental, and social diversity, this study suggests that credit plays a significant role in driving up house prices after the Great Recession, whereas property prices only influence bank lending before 2008....

Using Chinese city-level data from 1999 to 2012 and considering geological, environmental, and social diversity, this study suggests that credit plays a significant role in driving up house prices after the Great Recession, whereas property prices only influence bank lending before 2008....