In China, firms within a business group may be able to access funds provided by a parent-owned finance company within the business group. We provide direct evidence of ‘tunneling': where the parent of the business group requires member firms to increase their cash holdings through deposits in...

We examine the effects of bank's political connection on bank performance and risk in China. We use hand-collected information on CEOs' professional background to identify their political affiliations, and find that banks whose CEOs have former government experiences have higher return on...

While the relationship between outreach and financial performance (CFP) of microfinance institutions (MFIs) is increasingly well researched, next to nothing is known about the relationship between broader measure of corporate social responsibility (CSR) of MFIs and their CFP. In light of the...