We develop an input-output methodology to estimate how Chinese exports affect the country's total domestic value added (DVA) and employment for 1995 and 2002. Total DVA generated by exports is obtained by subtracting all direct and indirect imported intermediate goods from the gross value of...

We develop an input-output methodology to estimate how Chinese exports affect the country’s total domestic value added (DVA) and employment for 1995 and 2002. Total DVA generated by exports is obtained by subtracting all direct and indirect imported intermediate goods from the gross value of...

We develop an input-output methodology to estimate how Chinese exports affect the country’s total domestic value added (DVA) and employment for 1995 and 2002. Total DVA generated by exports is obtained by subtracting all direct and indirect imported intermediate goods from the gross value of...

Significant differences exist between official Chinese and U.S. trade statistics on the magnitudes of the China-U.S. trade balance in goods as well as in goods and services. These differences arise from a number of factors. First, the convention that exports of goods are measured on an FOB (free...

This study investigates how to incentivize financial regulators to prevent regulatory inaction. Using the 2018 China Banking and Insurance Regulatory Commission merger as a quasi-natural experiment, we use a DID model to empirically measure the impact of political promotion incentives on banking...

This paper investigates the association of corporate reporting and executive network centrality, which measures an executive’s relative position in a massive network consisting of outside corporate leaders. I find that high-centrality chief executive officers (CEOs) and chief financial...

This study examines voluntary disclosure after successful technological innovations and the associated cost of equity capital (COEC) consequences. We find that firms with successful technological innovations, proxied by economic and scientific values of patents, are more likely to voluntarily...

The paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of divorce in China with the data from The China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). The empirical results show that parental divorce increases the odd ratio of children's divorce significantly by 104.12% in complementary...

We construct four voluntary disclosure and two mandatory disclosure measures for 260,880 firm-quarters from 2005 through 2016 using 8K data. The first voluntary disclosure measure is the count of 8Ks, a proxy used in prior studies. The second and third voluntary disclosure measures are the count...