This paper examines the association between cash dividends and the shareholders balancing mechanism (SBM) using the exogeneity and endogeneity assumptions of corporate ownership structure. This paper identifies, in the case of China, whether paying cash dividends is a means of protection or...

Using a sample of listed Chinese firms between 2006 and 2012, we analyze the effect of international business strategy and government assistance on the stock market response to antidumping and countervailing investigations. We find a significantly negative abnormal return surrounding the...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate whether family CEOs benefit investment efficiency under uncertainty with Chinese family firms and to test the moderating effect of ownership structure, including family ownership, the separation of family control from family ownership and the multiple large...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of audit committee meeting frequency in Chinese listed companies. Design/methodology/approach – A multiple linear regression model, derived from the logarithmic model proposed by Raghunandan and Rama, is used to examine...

Time series data poses a significant variation to the traditional segmentation techniques of data mining because the observation is derived from multiple instances of the same underlying record. Additionally, the standard segmentation methods employed in traditional clustering require instances...