We use a quasi-natural experiment wherein the Shanghai Stock Exchange requires listed companies in certain industries to disclose operational information and a staggered difference-in-differences model to examine the impact of mandatory information disclosure on corporate innovation. We find...

The purpose of this study is to determine if the impact of transparency and disclosure (TD) levels on shareholders' current income (dividends) is moderated by technical efficiency (te) and profitability. The study employs econometrics on panel data from 78 BSE-listed enterprises across the...

This paper discusses the relationship between stock market liquidity and corporate governance. Both concepts are widely investigated from different angles in the literature. It is generally agreed that they are related so that better corporate governance implies higher liquidity for shares of...

E-commerce and FinTech are currently booming in China. The growing consumer market is accompanied by internet finance, by which consumers can easily borrow money from financial institutions online. As a result, the growing risks of financial institutions are of concern to the government and...

This research aims to develop a determinant variable of the Sukuk rating derived from agency and asymmetry theories. This research is essential because Sukuk or Islamic Bonds is needed in Indonesia, with 85% of its population out of 320 million people being Muslim. Many studies on the...

This study examines the impact of voluntary disclosure on the cost of capital and information asymmetry, and thereby on firm value in a comprehensively recursive model. We argue that there is unidirectional dependency among the information asymmetry, cost of capital, and such firm value, hence,...

The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between managers' ability and voluntary disclosure of carbon emissions and whether industry competition affects those relationships. Using Korean firms listed on the Korean stock market from 2008 to 2019, we find that high-ability managers...

Aside from scanty research in developing economies' context on the sustainability and firm value nexus and the dearth of studies on disclosure quality globally, available studies seem to have neglected the multidimensional nature of disclosure quality in measuring the construct. This paper was,...