Taking the case of high-pressure political reforms including the ongoing anti-corruption campaign in China, we investigate the impact of such reforms on the performance of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) relative to non-SOEs from the agency problem perspective. We report that before the...

We examine whether they engage in income-increasing accruals manipulation (AM) or real activities earnings management (RM) to affect the future rating changes when firm managers have private information about the upcoming credit rating change. Using the large sample of U.S. data over the period...

This paper examines how the investment horizons of a firm's institutional investors affect its corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities. Using data on U.S. firms' CSR ratings over the 1995–2012 period, we find that longer investment horizons are positively related to CSR. Further,...

Using US data over the period of 1988-2021, we find that firms with higher refinancing risk engage in more income-increasing accruals management, which indicates that the firms have opportunistic incentives to inflate earnings to appear financially attractive. We also document that the positive...

Korean Abstract: 본 연구는 신용평가정보가 주식시장에서 갖는 영향을 검증하기 위하여 국내 유가증권시장과 코스닥시장 상장기업의 신용등급 보유가 해당 기업 주식의 수익률 및 변동성에 미치는 영향을 분석한다. 주식분석과...

Essay 1 provides an analytical model for risk segmentation in the perfectly competitive consumer loan market by incorporating the fact that a parental durable good seller with market power to some degree in its product market can earn rents. In this context, there is a gain to granting credit...

Korean Abstract: 신용등급은 기업의 미래 현금흐름과 위험을 예측하는 정보를 제공하고 기업의 내재가치를 반영하여 금융거래 시 비대칭정보인 차입기업의 위험유형을 선별하고 통제하는 기능을 수행한다. 본 연구는...

Using a large dataset of Korean public and private firms, we show that public listing does not influence the supply of trade credit among firms affiliated with a large business group (chaebol). Meanwhile, non-affiliated public firms provide more trade credit to customers than their private...

This paper examines how trade credit demand and supply are determined in Korea, where large business groups are dominant in most of the segments and hierarchies of many industries. In particular, we investigate the effects of business group affiliation on trade credit financing, finding that a...