The present paper examines the association between corporate governance and earnings quality using the Corporate Governance in Finance (CGF) Index in China. Using a sample of 4,455 Chinese firms for fiscal years 2012 and 2014, the paper finds that firms with a higher CGF Index and more effective...

We study the impact of short sales on accrual-based and real earnings management (EM). Based on the costs and benefits of using EM to hide negative information, we derive an analytical model showing that there are two possibilities: 1) a firm engages in less accrual-based and real EM when facing...

Using China’s A-share listed firms from 2007 to 2011, this paper empirically tests how media governance affects firms’ levels of overinvestment and whether external supervision and informal institutional mechanisms reduce these levels. We find that media governance and overinvestment are...