Our study of 531 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) on the two Chinese Stock Exchanges during the period 1999 to 2004 indicates initial returns to investors of approximately 114.04 per cent and these earnings were sustained through the first month of trading. High initial returns on IPOs are most...

An attempt is made to verify the exchange rate regime that China has been following since 21 July 2005 when a policy shift was implemented, presumably taking China from a dollar peg to a basket peg. The results show that while a regime of simple and strict dollar peg has indeed been abandoned,...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate how Chinese firms’ ownership structure is related to their effective tax rate. The People’s Republic of China provides an interesting environment to examine the corporate income tax. Government has significant ownership stakes in the...