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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...
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We examine the effects of audit quality on earnings management and cost of equity capital for two groups of Chinese firms: state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and non-state-owned enterprises (NSOEs). The differences in the nature of the ownership, agency relations and bankruptcy risks lead SOEs to...
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employee behavior differently than a Chinese executive’s managerial style. Utilizing an experiment with Chinese managers as …-interest are present) on Chinese managers’ discretionary accrual decisions, as well as the role that their executives’ culturally …-based management style (Eastern versus Western) plays in mitigating their propensity to manage earnings. We find that Chinese managers …
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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...
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manipulation and investigates whether female directors on boards of directors (BoDs) affect managers’ real activities manipulation …
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This paper addresses the question of how bureaucratic incentives affect economic performance in China at the provincial level. This paper develops a novel model to measure promotion incentives of the Chinese provincial standing committee members from 1995 to 2015. Using machine learning...
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This paper presents theoretical analysis of how career concerns and shareholder monitoring affect chief executive officer (CEO) agency costs. We investigate investment efficiency prior to CEO retirement based on a sample of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) during the 1999-2007 period and...
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