Using a large sample of Chinese public listed firms from 2014 to 2021, we examine whether firms’ ESG performance inhibits corporate fraud. We find that high ESG performance mitigates corporate fraudulence. After conducting a series of robustness tests, the results remain unchanged. This...

Using a sample of 16 international stock market indices spanning the period of January 2015 to June 2022, we examine how global equity markets interact with respect to volatility spillover, with a special focus on differences regarding investment horizons and how the connectedness structure...

This study examines whether and how risk disclosures in Management Discussion and Analysis (MD&A) affected the stock price crash risk of China's publicly listed firms over the period of 2017-2021. The empirical results show that risk disclosures within the MD&A section are signif‑ icantly and...

Catastrophe bonds are insurance linked securities that transfer catastrophe risks from the insurance industry to financial markets. These risks cannot be hedged with ordinary financial securities. Due to market incompleteness, arbitrage pricing methods generally do not yield uniquely determined...

Zero-inflation problem is very common in ecological studies as well as other areas. Nonparametric regression with zero-inflated data may be studied via the zero-inflated generalized additive model (ZIGAM), which assumes that the zero-inflated responses come from a probabilistic mixture of zero...