We study the mandated introduction of a supervised auction for the primary bond market in China. The regulatory intervention significantly reduced the cost of debt for Chinese issuers. We show that the majority of the benefits flow from reduced agency conflict between underwriters and issuers....

This paper examines how the incumbent issuer-pay credit rating agencies (CRAs) in China adjust their rating strategies as a response to the entry of an independent rating agency, China Bond Rating (CBR), which utilizes a combination of public utility and investor-pay business model. We find that...

We investigate the intra-industry spill-over effect of bond defaults on the price of stocks, outstanding bonds and new bond issuances in China, the largest emerging debt market. We use a sample of A-shares and public corporate debt securities from 2006 to 2018. In the stock market, we find...

We use a broker firm's initial public offering (IPO) as a special event of organisational structure change and test its effects on the broker firm's analyst recommendations. We find that analysts increase recommendations and the increases are significant in the few years after their broker...

This paper investigates the factors that affect the likelihood of maintaining a stable relationship between a brokerage firm and its client funds and the effect of such a stable business relationship on analyst recommendations. We find that young funds, particularly those in small fund families,...

This paper investigates the effect of stable business relationships between brokerage firms and mutual funds on analyst recommendations. Although the amount of commission fees a brokerage firm receives is the primary factor affecting recommendation aggressiveness of the brokerage firm's...

This paper investigates the effect of stable business relationships between brokerage firms and mutual funds on analyst recommendations. Although the amount of commission fees a brokerage firm receives is the primary factor affecting recommendation aggressiveness of the brokerage firm's...

This paper studies how economic policy uncertainty affects corporate capital structure for Chinese listed firms from 2003 to 2013. We show that when the degree of economic policy uncertainty increases, firms tend to lower their leverage ratios. However, firms that are from regions with lower...

This paper investigates the factors that affect the likelihood of maintaining a stable relationship between a brokerage firm and its client funds and the effect of such a stable business relationship on analyst recommendations. We find that young funds, particularly those in small fund families,...