We investigate Chinese firms' use of variable interest entities (VIEs) to evade Chinese regulation on foreign ownership and list in the US. VIEs are explicitly designed to circumvent the intent of Chinese law on foreign control, and potentially exacerbate agency conflicts within the firm. We...

This paper introduces the Journal of Multinational Financial Management's special issue on financial management in China. We provide a brief literature review of China's financial management policies, practices, and recent research findings, and describe how papers published in this special...

China has sustained a rapid rate of economic growth and absorbed a great deal of foreign investment over the past decades. However, the laws pertaining to business in China have not kept up with China's market growth. For this reason, investors in the Chinese stock market must assess associated...

This draft explores the takeover war between Vanke (target) and Baoneng Group (bidder) and related issues on hostile takeovers in China. The Vanke-Baoneng case (hereinafter Vanke case) has raised many questions about corporate governance, a market for corporate control, market institutions,...

This paper analyzes understudied aspects of related party transactions (RPTs) in China’s state-owned enterprises (SOEs). This paper defines the government as an “institutional controlling shareholder” of SOEs. In addition, this paper examines two types of RPTs in the SOE sector:...

In many ways, China is the new frontier for entrepreneurship; perceived to be: a logical primary source of economical manufacturing, raw materials, component parts, and as a major end market. China may also represent the most likely future competition for many American industries as well as our...

We examine the influence of auditors on mitigating corporate fraud in China, which is known to have weak legal enforcement, weak investor protection along with tight control of the media and labour unions. We find that firms with executives that have lower integrity, indicated by a greater...

We examine the influence of auditors on corporate fraud in China. We find lower executive integrity firms are associated with higher propensity of regulatory enforcement actions against corporate fraud in the subsequent year. We then show that this effect is moderated by the issuance of modified...

Since the 1990s there has been a surge in the mutual fund industry across the world. Mutual funds offer individual investors both the diversification of investment risk and the expertise to monitor corporate decisions. We find the effect of mutual fund ownership in reducing corporate fraud...

We study the impact of corporate secretary tenure on the governance quality of Chinese A-share listed firms. Results show that corporate secretary tenure is negatively associated with board meeting frequency, outside director in-meeting dissent and incidence of fraud and lawsuit. Key findings...