This paper examines the effect of climate policy uncertainty on the default risk and documents a significant positive impact of China's CPU on the corporate default risk, and the impact sounds systematically aggravating with the increasing term structure of default investigation. Our research...

In response to the unprecedented uncertain rare events of the last decade, we derive an optimal portfolio choice problem in a semi-closed form by integrating price diffusion ambiguity, volatility diffusion ambiguity, and jump ambiguity occurring in the traditional stock market and the...

Standard estimates of risk premiums in traditional linear asset pricing models are subject to bias, primarily because of the omission of certain factors. The three-pass method is a promising approach that has been proposed to estimate the risk premium of observable factors. This method remains...

We investigate the effect of a public information service program in taxation on firms’ effective corporate income tax rate (ECITR), taking advantage of a tax hotline program that lowers the cost of access to tax information. Using Chinese firm-level administrative data and exploiting a...

Background: Since 2008, China has provided ITC (investment tax credit) and TID (taxable income deduction) for firms who engage in investment or business related to reducing pollution emissions and saving energy. This paper examines both incidence and effects of these tax incentives. Methods: We...

The Chinese stock market is replete with numerous omitted variables that can introduce biases in the standard estimation of risk premiums when traditional linear asset pricing models are applied. The three-pass method enables the estimation of risk premiums for observable factors even when not...

Financing through the sales of land, commonly known as land finance, is a major source of revenue for local governments in China. We use a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to analyze the macroeconomic impacts of China's reliance on land finance. Our results indicate that excessive...