We analyze 228 executive compensation contracts voluntarily disclosed by Chinese listed firms and find that central-government-controlled companies disclose more information in executive compensation contracts than local-government-controlled and non-government-controlled companies. Cash-based...

We analyze 228 executive compensation contracts voluntarily disclosed by Chinese listed firms and find that central-government-controlled companies disclose more information in executive compensation contracts than local-government-controlled and non-government-controlled companies. Cash-based...

China's listed companies often exchange corporate assets with unlisted affiliates, such as their parent companies, which is rarely observed in the United States. We find that listed companies that have been incompletely restructured from former state-owned enterprises and those that are in sound...

We examine how China's adoption of a new set of Chinese Accounting Standards (CAS) that is substantially converged with the IFRS affects the managerial pay-for-accounting performance sensitivity of publicly listed Chinese firms. We find that central-government-controlled firms adopted an...