This paper tests the proposition that politicians and their affiliated firms (i.e., firms operating in their province) temporarily suppress negative information in response to political incentives. We examine the stock price behavior of Chinese listed firms around two visible political events...

This study examines the impact of ownership features, corporate governance mechanisms, and firm-specific characteristics on the voluntary disclosure provided by publicly-listed companies on the Shanghai Stock Exchange in China. The ownership structure features and corporate governance mechanisms...

Management earnings forecasts (MEFs) are traditionally considered as voluntary disclosures. However, it is a type of compulsory disclosure in China. This paper introduces the evolution of MEF disclosure requirements in China. Further, based on the current Chinese research on MEFs, it...

This paper examines whether mandatory corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting affects corporate environmental degradation (or pollution) levels in China. Starting in 2008, Chinese stock exchange listing requirements mandated that certain firms issue CSR reports. These mandated firms are...

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...

Since the establishment of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange's (SZSE) Disclosure Ranking System in 2001, listed companies' disclosure quality has been increasing year by year in China. Better disclosure quality helps reduce the information asymmetry between the managers of those companies and external...

We examine the impact of family control on the likelihood of accounting misstatements and market reactions to subsequent restatements. Using a matched-firm approach, we find that family control overall reduces the incidence of misstatements, consistent with the notion that controlling families...

This paper empirically examines whether there is an association between financial reporting disclosure quality and sustainability disclosure quality of the top 100 socially reputed Chinese listed firms. The paper computed financial disclosure quality by empirically combining earning qualities of...