This study examines the determinants of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and its implications on firms' investment policy, organizational strategy and performance. First, we find that firms with better performance, higher R&D intensity, better financial health, and firms in new economy...

We investigate how investor overconfidence and margin trades affect market efficiency around a market crash. We find that the price delay before a crash is about twice the price delay after a crash and that negative information travels slowly only when market sentiment is high because of...

Corporations often draw criticism and face demands from non-governmental organisations (NGOs); some typical examples of controversial issues concerned by NGOs include climate change, pollution, fracking, GMOs in food, animal welfare, supply chain issues and labour standards. The most pressing...

We investigate the effect of investor overconfidence and margin trades on market efficiency around a market crash. We find that the price delay in a pre-crash period is about twice the price delay in a post-crash period. After a market crash, investors become more sensitive to market movements,...

This study examines the impact of reputational risk, measured by corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) ratings, on shareholder abnormal returns. Based on 7,368 non-financial companies from 42 countries during 2007-2017, we find that long-short portfolios (buying no reputation risk and selling...

This paper extends the Multiplicative Error Model (MEM) by adding the location parameter. The minimum of a sample is proved to be a consistent estimator for this parameter, and used to truncate the data set. If the truncated data set contains none or a trivial proportion of zeroes, the...

Due to historically weaker institutions and less favourable macroeconomic conditions in the African context, we argue that corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) activities might be penalized less while corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities may be of less benefit for firms. Using a...

Following stakeholder resource-based theory (SRBT), we conceptualize the value relevance of corporate social irresponsibility (CSI) based on the bargaining power that stakeholders possess regarding firms' inputs and revenue generations. Accordingly, we classify the stakeholders into residual...

Flat consumption taxes have no effect on long run aggregate capital formation when markets are complete. In this note, we provide conditions on utility under which a similar statement is true under incomplete markets. When these conditions are satisfied, using a flat consumption tax to finance...

China, officially the People's Republic of China, includes Mainland China and two special administrative regions, Hong Kong and Macao. The political, legal and economic systems of Mainland China are different from those of the special administrative regions. The development stage of responsible...