This study finds that stronger market control (measured as fewer anti-takeover provisions) and more effective boards (measured as boards that are more independent and for which independent directors have more outside directorships) are both associated with higher R&D valuation. Furthermore,...

While both the economic and agency theory have been proposed to explain cost stickiness, Chen, Lu, and Sougiannis (2012) is the first study that provides evidence to support the agency explanation. To address the endogeneity concern, we extend Chen et al. (2012) by employing state antitakeover...

Based on 16,604 observations between 1994 and 2006, this study revisits the “horizon problem” by examining how CEO retirement affects conditional accounting conservatism. We hypothesize and find that firms become less conservative in their financial reporting before the retirement of their...

The cases that controlling shareholders expropriate the rights and interests of other shareholders frequently appeared in China, thus, encouraging non-controlling shareholders to actively participate in corporate decision-making was advocated by the public. However, whether non-controlling...