Dividends allow shareholders to receive investment returns; however, Chinese listed companies are often reluctant to share profits with external minority shareholders, instead channeling funds into "tunneling" activities of major shareholders. By examining the China Securities Investor Service...

We study the relation between bond characteristics and corporate bond returns in China's two distinct and segmented bond markets-the interbank market and the exchange market-with a large cross-sectional dataset of 8318 corporate bonds from January 2010 to December 2022. Corporate bonds with...