Background: This study analyzes the impact of non-performing loans (NPLs) on bank liquidity creation to investigate the existence of moral hazard problem in Chinese banks. Methods: It uses data from 197 listed and unlisted Chinese banks, spanning the period 2005 to 2014. Generalized method of...

This paper examines the impact of corporate ownership structure and ownership concentration (OC) on the corporate performance of listed firms in China. Ordinary least square and two-stages least squares models are used to capture the relationship between the independent variables and firm...

Background: This study analyzes the impact of non-performing loans (NPLs) on bank liquidity creation to investigate the existence of moral hazard problem in Chinese banks. Methods: It uses data from 197 listed and unlisted Chinese banks, spanning the period 2005 to 2014. Generalized method of...

Using a large sample of Chinese public listed firms from 2014 to 2021, we examine whether firms’ ESG performance inhibits corporate fraud. We find that high ESG performance mitigates corporate fraudulence. After conducting a series of robustness tests, the results remain unchanged. This...