Using the high-speed rail opening of each city in China as a natural experiment, we apply the difference-in-differences model to investigate how the transportation infrastructure in a region affects the behaviour of local company going public. We find that after high-speed rail runs through a...

Senior talents are the source and driving force of sustained economic growth, so attracting and retaining senior talents is crucial to local economic development. From the perspective of senior talents - executives, using a sample of publicly traded A-share listed companies during 2005-2018 in...

The cost of equity capital (ICC) is a crucial component of investment decisions and corporate performance evaluations. This study explores the effect of a region's religious atmosphere on ICC and finds that ICC tends to be lower when stronger religious atmosphere is created. We further use the...

Using Chinese comment letters data, we investigate the impact of the disclosure of comment letters on the cost of debt financing. Empirical results show that when the comment letters are publicly disclosed, creditors charge borrowers significantly higher cost of debt financing. Furthermore, when...

This study focuses on the impact of tax risks ensuing from the tax reform process on enterprise innovation. Using the sample data of A-share listed companies on the Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges from 2008 to 2020, this study explores whether the predictability of corporate tax burdens...

Tax incentives have become an important driving force for enterprises to ease financing constraints and promote innovation. Several existing studies focus on the tax reduction effect of corporate tax incentive policies and pay less attention to the risks engendered by tax uncertainty. This study...

The cost of equity capital (ICC) is a crucial component of investment decisions and corporate performance evaluations. This study explores the effect of a region's religious atmosphere on ICC and finds that ICC tends to be lower when stronger religious atmosphere is created. We further use the...

The Property Rights Theory states that clearly defined ownership is the premise of efficiency, while ambiguous property rights result in great externalities. We use the establishment of local SASACs as a quasi-natural experiment to investigate how unifying the supervision rights and...

We examine the impact of bank mergers on chief executive officer (CEO) compensation during 1992–2014, a period characterised by significant banking consolidation. We show that CEO compensation is positively related to both merger growth and non-merger internal growth, with the former relation...