Air pollution is a growing hazard to human health. This study examines whether air pollution affects the formation of corporate human capital and thereby firm performance. We find that people exhibit an intention to look for jobs in less polluted areas when air pollution is high in their...

This paper studies whether and how controlling shareholders’stock pledge affects corporate fraudulence. We find that both the pledge behavior and the pledge ratio of the controlling shareholders are positively associated with future corporate fraudulence. The results are robust after...

This study investigates whether and how minority shareholders activism (MSA) affects executives’ pay–performance sensitivity (PPS). Based on annual data of listed companies on SSE and SZSE from 2010 to 2021, we find that MSA significantly promotes executives’ pay-performance sensitivity,...