A long-term orientation influences a country’s use of trade credit. We examine 519,805 firm-year observations across 71 countries from 1990 to 2020. Considering endogeneity and checking robustness, the main finding suggests that the effect of long-term orientation is related to the greater use...

This research examine the effects of information disclosure ratings on firm-specific stock price crash risk. We present evidence that there is a statistically significant negative relationship between stock price crash risk and information disclosure ratings. Our evidence further shows that the...

We examine the impact of information asymmetry on a firm's capital structure decisions with a unique information rating scheme that draws from 114 measures over five dimensions of information disclosures on each firm from 2006 to 2012. We found that a firm with high (low) information rating is...

Research Questions/Issue: This study investigates the relationship between equity-based CEO risk-taking incentives and information asymmetry as indicated by stock price delay.Research Findings/Insights: Based on a panel of firms listed in the United States from 1990 to 2018, this study reveals...

This study investigates the effect of media coverage on stock liquidity in the Chinese stock market. Media coverage has a significant positive effect on stock liquidity. Media coverage improves stock liquidity by improving the information environment and reducing adverse selection by investors....

This paper investigates the role of corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance in forecasting companys' stock prices and future returns. The forecasting analysis identifies a negative association between CSR performance and proxies of price delay. The negative CSR–delay association is...

This paper examines the relationships among liquidity, earnings management, and stock expected returns by using a sample of Chinese listed firms to investigate 22,022 firm–year observations from 1998 to 2018. Our study reveals that an increase in stock liquidity is associated with a decrease...

Confucianism, as an informal system, influences the risk preferences of households and, therefore, affects households' investment behaviours. This study investigates the effects of Confucian culture on household risky assets by using data from the 2016 China Family Panel Studies and using...

In this paper, we examine the use of book-to-market equity (BE/ME) as a determinant of asset correlations in the Basel Accord on regulatory capital requirements. Utilizing an international sample from 38 countries during 1989–2017, we discover that asset correlations, controlling for firm size...

Research Question/Issue: Executives with a legal background have superior knowledge of the law compared with executives who do not have such a background. This study investigates how executives who are well informed of the law can reduce stock price crash risk and how this is significant from a...