This paper investigates how institutional environment like property rights protection influences the size and composition of corporate boards, and further, how board structure impacts firm performance in China. Using a World Bank survey of 2,400 public and private firms across 18 Chinese cities,...

This paper investigates the monitoring effect of institutional investors on portfolio firms' audit quality. We identify an exogenous discontinuity in institutional ownership around the Russell index threshold to overcome the endogeniety concerns. We find that an exogenous increase in a firm's...

This paper studies how managerial compensation is shaped by the risk preference of shareholders. Firms with a large ownership held by "dual holders'' -- institutional investors that simultaneously hold equity and bonds of the company -- choose a less risk-inducing compensation structure....

This study examines how minimum wage hikes affect firms’ industrial pollution. Using the establishment-level pollutant emission data on Chinese industrial firms and exploring the minimum wage policy discontinuities at county borders, we find that minimum wage hikes induce firms to pollute more...