This paper examines whether the rapid growing firm patenting activity in China is associated with real economic outcome by building a unique dataset uniting detailed firm balance sheet information with firm patent data for the period of 1998-2007. We find strong evidence that within-firm...

Existing studies usually investigate the effects of Trump’s trade war on U.S. financial markets by the event-study method. We take an alternative approach by integrating trade war-related news into one single "trade war shock" based on a structural vector autoregression model identified via...

This paper investigates the impact on the risk of a crash in the stock price (SPCR) of a hometown connection between a firm's chief executive officer (CEO) and suppliers. Using manually collected data on CEOs' hometown connections among Chinese A-share companies (A-shares, or RMB common shares,...

Advance selling occurs when consumers order a firm's product prior to the regular selling season. It reduces uncertainty for both the firm and the buyers and enables the firm to better forecast its future demand. The distinctive feature of this paper is that there are both experienced and...

We find that correlations between returns on stocks are small for firms with poor accounting information quality. Only undiversifiable risk is rewarded with a premium and the undiversifiable risk of a diversified portfolio increases with correlations between returns on its component stocks....