As an important part of the national political system, government audits play a significant role in supervising and restricting enterprises. Since 2010, the National Audit Office of China has repeatedly disclosed the problems regarding enterprises' M&A to prevent the loss of state-owned assets....

We study the extent of price discovery in the onshore Chinese corporate bond market, focusing in particular on the information content of credit spreads in China. Using Merton's model of default, we construct credit measures of publicly listed firms, using information from their financial...

We study how perceived government support for state-owned enterprises (SOEs), can shut out non-SOEs in China's credit market, causing severe segmentation in credit pricing. Since 2018Q2, amid government-led credit tightening, the SOE premium – the difference in credit spreads between non-SOE...

Studying China's credit market, we find improved price efficiency and, paradoxically, worsening segmentation as perceived government support for state-owned enterprises (SOEs) caused non-SOE credit spreads to explode rather dramatically relative to their SOE counterparts of same credit rating,...