Online banking has become an important distribution channel for commercial banks. We construct a bank-specific indicator of online channel adoption to study the risk and return of online channels based on a sample of 118 Chinese banks in the period 2002-2016. Our empirical results find that...

In this study, we examine the effect of investor sentiment on the stock market reaction to earnings news (i.e., the earnings response coefficient or ERC) for loss firms. We find that the ERC for loss firms' earnings increases is less positive as sentiment increases, contrary to the findings in...

We study the impacts of regime changes and related rule implementations on IPOs’ initial return for China’s entrepreneurial boards. We find that the most efficient regulation regime in China’s IPO pricing has four characteristics: 1) registration system, 2) no hard return caps and no...

A low-interest rate environment induces higher demand for income-generating assets, such as high-dividend stocks and high-coupon bonds. In this paper, we explore the impact of this “reaching-for-income” phenomenon on fund flows of corporate bond mutual funds. We find that high...