This paper investigates the causal effect of corruption on entrepreneurship. We use staggered anti-corruption investigations in China as exogenous shocks to conduct difference-in-differences estimation, and find that the country's anti-corruption campaign has a sizeable positive effect on...

This study examines the reaction of firms to economic policy uncertainty (EPU) by investing in corporate social responsibility (CSR). Using a Chinese sample, we find a positive and significant relationship between EPU and the CSR engagement of firms. Moreover, we find that firms without...

This paper examines how a firm’s employment policy, particularly employee cash profit-sharing plans, affects its financial reporting. We find that firms with employee cash profit-sharing programs are more likely to engage in downward earnings management to reduce labor costs, especially with...

Employing a recently developed method-mixed data sampling (MIDAS) approach - to assess the risk-return trade-off for Chinese stock markets, our results are striking. First, we fail to find any evidence of the risk-return trade-off in the first subsample (Jan 1993¨CJan 2001), while we do find...