Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of corporate governance on the capital market participants’ abilities to forecast future performance, as measured by the properties of analysts’ earnings forecasts in Asian stock markets. Design/methodology/approach: This paper...

This study examines the effect of firm investment on stock returns by using data on the Chinese stock market. We find that stocks with higher investment experience lower future returns and there is an obvious investment effect in the Chinese stock market. The investment effect is stronger for...

In order to precisely measure the dilatation energy of the released gas from underground coal seam, this paper initiated a study on the dilatation energy of gas released from underground coal seam by drilling boreholes. Firstly, an in-depth analysis is made on the two major factors causing...

Streambed vertical hydraulic conductivity (K <Subscript> v </Subscript>) plays an important role in understanding and quantifying the stream–aquifer interactions. While several researchers have discussed the spatial variability of streambed horizontal hydraulic conductivity or K <Subscript> v </Subscript> at one or several close-located...</subscript></subscript>

Purpose: This study aims to investigate the effect of winning-losing perception, including the winning or losing result and the closeness of this result, on consumers’ subsequent variety-seeking behavior. Design/methodology/approach: Four experimental designs, one with a modified version of...

Purpose: A combined model involving the intensity of negative emotions and the strategic combinations (timing and means) of service recovery is developed. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the performances of these different combinations through customer satisfaction, repurchase...

Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore the effects of priming on consumer emotions and willingness to pay as consumers experience two services with two opposite valences. Design/methodology/approach A 2 (service experience sequence: failure–success, success–failure) × 3(priming:...

The mere categorization effect indicates that increasing the number of categorizations for partitioning an assortment can motivate satisfaction. This paper seeks to further clarify the effect of categorization numbers on consumer satisfaction. As the number of categorizations starts to increase...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine whether corporate tax avoidance behavior increases firm value in Chinese context. A large number of studies conduct their designs on the consumption that tax avoidance represents wealth transfer from government to enterprises and therefore...