Chinese listed companies have a two-tier (dual) governance structure that comprises a supervisory board/committee (SB); and the board of directors (BoD). However as there is no hierarchical relationship between them, the two boards are independent. This is different from the governance mechanism...

Chinese listed companies have a two-tier (dual) governance structure that comprises a supervisory board/committee (SB) and the board of directors (BoD). However as there is no hierarchical relationship between them, the two boards are independent. This is different from the governance mechanism...

Stock markets continually reflect the assessment of CEOs' characteristics into stock prices hence we expect that there might be a link between CEOs' demographic characteristics and stock return volatility. We investigate the influence of CEOs' demographic characteristics (e.g. age, tenure,...

A competing risk hazard model is employed to examine the reasons for Hong Kong's Growth Enterprise (GEM) companies transferring to the Main Board (MB) in the period 2000-2012. In our sample during the period 21 companies or 15% of the original stock moved up to the MB. The modal life expectancy...