The objective of this study is to investigate how a firm's corporate governance affects its product market power. Adopting firms listed in the TSE and the OTC Exchange from 1996 to 2011, we find three main results. Firstly, better corporate governance leads to stronger product market power....

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to investigate the insights of herding behavior among Confucian markets.Methodology and data: The foundation of the empirical models of this study is based on return dispersion methods developed by Chang, Cheng, and Khorana (2000), Tan, Chiang, Mason, and...

This paper first examines the effects of value relevance of earnings and incremental value relevance of cash flows on net external financing, net equity financing and net debt financing. The investors, in general, suffer beta risk and idiosyncratic risk of a firm. The former is the main...

Ohlson (1995) develops an equity valuation model based on the framework of dividend irrelevance proposition proposed by Miller and Modigliani (1961). He claims that a dividend payout lowers the current book value of equity but not the current earnings, and thus a firm's current market value is...