Studies on state ownership often involve endogeneity issues, such as a lack of variation in state ownership status and vastly different firm characteristics between state-owned enterprises and private firms. By using an exogenous regulatory reform, the split share structure reform in China, this...

This paper investigates the impact of margin trading on firms' financial reporting. Using a difference-in-differences (DID) approach that exploits staggered elimination of margin trading bans, it reports a significant effect of margin trading on earnings management. Treated firms increase...

We examine the effect of government ownership and its associated institutional incentives on firms' earnings quality using a sample of Chinese firms during the transitional economy between 1998 and 2005 when state-owned and non-state-owned firms were traded in the stock exchanges. We find that,...

This study investigates how the mandatory adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) affects the contractual benefits of using accounting information to determine executive compensation in China. After controlling for firm and corporate governance characteristics, we find...

This study investigates whether and how book-tax differences (BTDs) are related to earnings management, tax management, and their interactions in Chinese listed companies. Using unique tax-effect BTDs obtained from Chinese B-share listed firms, we find that firms with strong incentives for...

We examine the association between borrower (firm) and lender (bank) state ownership and accounting conservatism for a sample of Chinese firms. We hypothesize that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) adopt less conservative accounting than non-state-owned enterprises (NSOEs) because lenders are less...

China issued the New Enterprise Income Tax Law in 2007, which changed the corporate income tax rate from 33% to 25% and came into effect in 2008. Using the simulated marginal tax rate as an indicator of firms' earnings management incentives, and discretionary current accruals as a proxy for...

This paper reviews the academic literature on earnings management in China. We discuss the motivations behind the listed firms' earnings management, and provide empirical evidence on earnings management using various accounting measures. The literature shows that earnings management occurs most...

This study examines the impact of other comprehensive income (OCI) on stock price crash risk. We find that the disclosure of OCI can reduce stock price crash risk. This association is robust to a series of robustness checks, including the use of different measures of crash risk, firm fixed...

This paper investigates whether corporate social responsibility active (CSR active) firms operate dissimilarly from other firms in their financial reporting. Specifically, we examine whether the corporate social responsibility (CSR) attitude of a firm sways its reporting incentives, in respect...