Bio-E10 is short for the biofuel made up of 90% gasoline in volume and 10% bio-ethanol, which is the ethanol made from commercially-grown crops such as corn and wheat by the sugar fermentation process. In China, bio-E10 will be supplied nationwide from 2020 as an alternative to conventional...

Exploiting the staggered establishment of public data open platforms (PDOPs) across different cities of China, we study whether and how improved public data availability affects firms’ stock price crash risk (SPCR). We find that the establishment of PDOPs significantly decrease local firms’...

Using manually collected firm-level data on foreign subsidiaries, we examine the impact of internationalisation on analysts’ earnings forecast bias in Chinese multinational corporations. We find that analysts’ earnings forecast bias is stronger among multi-national firms when compared with...