Using the data of China Securities Index (CSI) 300, we analyse how passive investing affects stock prices through information contents. We focus on analysing the index effect from the perspective of information costs. We find that index additions lead to more passive investments in the added...

This study examines how institutional investor investment horizons impact stock price crash risk for China's A-share firms from 2007 to 2019. Long-term investments by institutions significantly mitigate risk by curbing managerial myopia, enhancing transparency, and improving accountability, thus...

This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) Composite Index and the indexes of 10 Chinese listed banks. In particular, we try to test whether the listing of these banks has played a role in leading the Chinese stock market boom during 2007. Using...

This paper investigates the dynamic and long-run relationships between monetary policy and asset prices in China using monthly data from June 2005 to September 2010. Johansen's cointegration approach based on vector autoregression (VAR) and Granger causality test are used to identify the...

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,...