This study investigates the non-linear relationship between CEO demission threats and corporate risk-taking levels. We first estimate the degree of CEO demission threats, and then examine how CEO demission threats affect the level of corporate risk-taking. Using the data of China's A-share...

Executive turnover is important in the governance of state-owned enterprises (SOEs). Herein, we focus on the executive turnover of China's SOEs, and the implementation of related evaluation mechanisms under different levels of government intervention. We collect executive turnover data of listed...

Based on upper echelon theory, we employ machine learning to explore how CEO characteristics influence corporate violations using a large-scale dataset of listed firms in China for the period 2010-2020. Comparing ten machine learning methods, we find that eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost)...