An ever-increasing incident of cyberattacks is devastating to firms' operations and financial sustainability. We examine the association between corporate social irresponsibility (CSIR) and data breach incidents, stock market reactions to the affected firms, and how firms react to data breaches...

Managerial estimates are ubiquitous in accounting: most balance sheet and income statement items are based on estimates; some, such as the pension and employee stock options expenses, derive from multiple estimates. These estimates are affected by objective estimation errors, as well as by...

We examine the impact of internationalization on IPO underpricing in China. Our findings, which suggest that internationalization can reduce IPO underpricing, echoes similar findings in the literature. However, we document that the transmission channel is not consistent with a diversification...

Local state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in China continue to face government interference in their operations. They are influenced both by the government's "grabbing hand" and by its "helping hand." Our study examines how SOE chairmen with connections to government influence their firm's employment...

Based on listed companies issuing bonds on the Shanghai and Shenzhen Stock Exchanges from 2007 to 2017, this study analyzes the relationship between significant risk warnings in Chinese companies' annual reports and corporate bond credit spreads. The main findings are as follows. First, in the...