The aim of this study was to identify appropriate indicators of human capital and clarify the relationship between investment in human capital and corporate value. We examined the relationship between proxy variables and corporate value, using empirical models to analyze the explanatory power of...

This study focuses on whether information transparency can reduce a firm’s idiosyncratic risk. We measure information transparency from an annual report on the public transparency of Chinese companies. Using a simultaneous equations approach, we find that idiosyncratic risk is reduced when a...