Corporate risk-taking activities among Chinese corporations generally increase with the
presence of male-only boards but are mitigated by state ownership. The positive relation …

Conventional aggregation of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) raw scores and its
interpreted impact on firm value have provided mixed evidence in the literature. We show that the …

This study provides a formal analysis on the structural breaks and volatility spillovers in
seven largest cryptocurrencies including Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ripple, Stellar, Monero, Dash, and …

In this paper we examine how stock return synchronicity relates to changes in market-based
measures of information-based trading in response to analyst recommendation revisions. …

A stock market should display informational efficiency and, therefore, should appropriately
reflect the value of political connections, if any value exists. Using a comprehensive data set …

In this paper, we test the profitability of short-term contrarian and momentum strategies, which
take into account the effects of trading activity, size/value characteristics, and asymmetric …

We regress socio-economic indicators against firm level CSR scores using a sample of over
26,000 firm year observations from 1991 through 2009. We find that a firm's CSR profile is …

We provide an out-of-sample test on Brogaard et al. (2017)’s difference-in-differences (DID)
finding that stock liquidity affects US firm Expected Default Frequency (EDF), in the context of …

We examine the influence of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on the liveliness of local
insurance markets across 16 OECD countries during the 1998–2017 period. Our static panel …

Purpose The authors provide a comprehensive empirical examination on the impact of
earnings quality on stock price crash risk in China. Design/methodology/approach The authors …