This study investigates the impact of professor-directors on the executive-employee pay gap in public Chinese firms. University professors are generally believed to have higher standards of ethical and social responsibility by the public. Consistent with this view, we find there is a negative...

Chinese government broke its long-standing practice of bond bailouts in March 2014. The number and par value of bond defaults increased substantially in the following years. We investigate the Chinese bond defaults from 2014 to 2019 and examine the impact of the no-bailout reform. We find...

We investigate the nascent but fast-growing Chinese bond market and credit rating industry. We find Chinese bond ratings are informative and significantly correlated with bond offering yields. In addition, the Chinese bond investors distinguish ratings from different credit rating agencies...