Based on the data of companies listed on A-share market from the year 2001 to 2009, this paper measures product market power and the information content of stock price by using an event study method. Then I explore the relationship between product market power, corporate governance and the...

Based on the data of companies listed on A-share market during the year 2001 to 2009, this paper explores the relationship between product market power and trade volume in the view of heterogeneous beliefs. It's found that the improvement of product market power significantly promotes trading,...

Based on the data of 786 companies listed on A-share market during 2001 to 2009, this paper studies firm-specific return volatility. It's found that the absolute level of firm-specific volatility is rising, while the weight of firm-specific volatility is decreasing, which implies declining...

Based on the data of A-share market from the year 2001 to 2009, we tests Peress's (2010) proposition that product market power reduce heterogeneous beliefs in the stock market. Also factors suggested by Miller (1977) that may influence heterogeneous beliefs are analyzed. We find product market...

We extend the literature on the effects of managerial entrenchment to consider how safety-net subsidies and financial distress costs interact with managerial incentives to influence capital structure in U.S. commercial banking. Using cross-sectional data on publicly traded, highest-level U.S....

We extend the literature on the effects of managerial entrenchment on capital structure to consider how safety-net subsidies and financial distress costs interact with managerial incentives to influence capital structure in U.S. commercial banking. Using cross-sectional data on publicly traded,...

What is the output of financial institutions? And how can we measure their nominal and, more importantly, real value, especially since many financial services are provided without explicit charges? This paper summarizes the theoretical result that, to correctly impute the nominal value of...

What is the output of financial institutions? And how can we measure their nominal and, more importantly, real value, especially since many financial services are provided without explicit charges? This paper summarizes the theoretical result that, to correctly impute the nominal value of...

Surveys of bank efficiency intrinsically draw conclusions based on the assumption that all banks in a sample use the same production technology. Neglecting the existence of unobserved differences in technological regimes might distort efficiency estimates by assigning incorrectly these...

This paper examines the organizational forms of Islamic banks, corporate governance mechanism, and their effects on organizational behavior, specifically relating to managerial expense preferences. The paper opted for an OLS cluster regression and followed by a stochastic frontier approach test...