This study aims to investigate whether qualified foreign institutional investors (QFIIs) improve companies' internal control quality to mitigate information asymmetry. By analysing a sample of 22,310 firm-year observations from Chinese listed companies between 2005 and 2017, we found that...

This study examines the effect of retail investor-firm communications (RIFC) on corporate ESG performance. Exploiting the unique setting of Chinese investor interactive platforms which enable retail investors to pose questions and require firm answers, we show that RIFC significantly improves...

Considering the leadership role of top management team (TMT) in the implementation of corporate digital strategy, we use a sample of Chinese A-share listed companies from 2012 to 2020 to test the impact of TMT stability on corporate digital innovation. We find that as TMT stability improves, the...

To address the challenge of minimizing the risk of irrational investment decisions made by investors in the face of wealth fluctuations, this article incorporates prospect theory and disappointment theory into the framework of multi-objective portfolio selection. The proposed portfolio selection...

This paper investigates how banks’ loan pricing responds to the environmental performance of borrowing companies. Using a unique hand-collected dataset of bank loans in China, we find that banks reward borrowers that have higher environmental responsibility scores with lower loan interest...

This study examines the impact of promotion-based tournament incentives on corporate labor investment efficiency. We find that tournament incentives, measured as the pay gap between the CEO and the next layer of non-CEO senior executives, lead to inefficient labor investments, measured as the...

The financial statement (FS) fraud detection framework proposed in this paper, PeerMeta, makes improvements in all three aspects of learning processes: the selection of research samples, feature set, and detection model. For the research samples, prior studies are based on FS fraud events that...

This study examines the impact of promotion-based tournament incentives on corporate labor investment efficiency. We find that tournament incentives, measured as the pay gap between the CEO and the next layer of non-CEO senior executives, lead to inefficient labor investments, measured as the...

The present study provides a comprehensive comparative investigation on feedstock pyrolysis and char gasification performance of typical forestry biomass obtained from Northeast Asia. Firstly, the physicochemical properties were tested and compared in detail. Then, the pyrolysis experiments were...