This study reports the migration of cesium-137( 137 Cs) into deep soil layers, and the 137 Cs transfer from soil to soybean in farmland under three tillage(no tillage, NT; rotary cultivation, RC; moldboard plow; MP) treatments and an undisturbed grassland(GL) at eight years after the Fukushima...

Using data from China’s listed firms, we examine the relation between foreign residency rights (FFRs) and corporate innovation. The empirical results show that FFRs decrease corporate innovation. We further find that FFRs hinder corporate innovation by raising the financing cost. Moreover, the...

Purpose: The purpose of this research is to examine whether board gender diversity reduces the agency costs of firms in the context of Chinese listed firms. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses a large sample of 23,340 firm-year observations of Chinese listed companies during...

Purpose: This study investigates the impact of board gender diversity and foreign ownership on innovation in Chinese firms. Design/methodology/approach: The authors use data for Chinese manufacturing firms listed on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges, for a sample over the period...

This study investigates the impact of women directors on a firm’s sustainable growth rate. Using data from 2003 to 2017 for Chinese listed firms, we found a positive relationship between women directors and a sustainable growth rate. Our study also contributes to institutional theory by...

Order Flow Imbalance (OFI) can explain short-term changes in stock price. This paper considers the change of non-minimum quotation units, and proposes Generalized Order Flow Imbalance (GOFI) to explain the price change. Based on the limit order book snapshot data, we conduct an empirical...

This paper reveals that the rest-of-day (before the last 30 minutes to market close) return can significantly predict the last half-hour return in the Chinese SSE 50 exchange-traded fund market. Its predictive power is economically significant and will decay in the next three days. Moreover, it...