This paper investigates how banks’ loan pricing responds to the environmental performance of borrowing companies. Using a unique hand-collected dataset of bank loans in China, we find that banks reward borrowers that have higher environmental responsibility scores with lower loan interest...

Using a large sample of Chinese public listed firms from 2014 to 2021, we examine whether firms’ ESG performance inhibits corporate fraud. We find that high ESG performance mitigates corporate fraudulence. After conducting a series of robustness tests, the results remain unchanged. This...

This study investigates the effects of financial statement comparability on corporate expected default risk (EDF). Based on three different comparability measures, we find that financial statement comparability is negatively related to the EDF in the current and subsequent periods. This negative...