We examine whether external finance pressure influences information disclosure of Chinese non-state-owned enterprises (NSOEs), which are often entrepreneurial firms. Existing Chinese stock exchange regulations stipulate that firms need to meet certain earnings performance criteria to qualify for...

Using provincial panel data for Chinese commercial banks in the period 2002--2007, this article investigates the impact of competition and privatization on bank lending efficiency. We find evidence of noncommercialization in lending activities. In comparison with privatization, competition plays...

We outline a systematic approach to incorporate macroeconomic information into firm level forecasting from the perspective of an equity investor. Using a global sample of 198,315 firm-years over the 1998–2010 time period, we find that combining firm level exposures to countries (via geographic...

<heading id="h1" level="1" implicit="yes" format="display">ABSTRACT</heading>This paper investigates contractual definitions of net income and net worth and the cross-sectional variation in definitions of net income in a large sample of private debt contracts to shed light on the debt contracting demand for accounting numbers. The descriptive evidence indicates...

We re-examine the positive relationship between the probability of information-based trading (PIN) measure and timely loss recognition, documented by LaFond and Watts (2008). This relationship has been interpreted as evidence that timely loss recognition plays an information role for equity...