This paper uses a quasi-natural experiment to study how houseowners’ borrowing costs were affected by the housing value fluctuation in China using a novel micro-level data from an online peer-to-peer (P2P) lending platform. The impacts on other equilibrium loan variables such as borrowing...

This paper investigates whether borrowers’ home values affect their unsecured loans’ borrowing costs using data from a leading online peer-to-peer (P2P) platform in China. Taking China’s 2016 home-purchase restrictions (HPR) policy as an exogenous shock, we employ a...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine long‐term return of new China collectible stamps after their issuance and how stamp characteristics affect the return. Design/methodology/approach – The authors construct a model to analyze the determinants of stamps' long‐term return and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine preferences of Chinese individual and institutional investors to cash dividends and stock dividends. Using categorized daily holding information from the TOPVIEW database, the authors test how percentage holdings of individuals and...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine how customer socialization strategies can help social enterprises (SEs) to establish different types of organizational legitimacy and how different types of organizational legitimacy in turn can encourage customers' positive in-role behavior...

Purpose: As personalized work arrangements, idiosyncratic deals can activate employees’ energy and thus affect their innovative performance. The purpose of this study was to examine whether employee vitality mediates the relationships between two different types of idiosyncratic deals and the...

Compartmental models have been used to model information diffusion on social media. However, there have been few studies on modelling positive and negative public opinions using compartmental models. This study aimed for using sentiment analysis and compartmental model to model the propagation...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate how cultural value in materialism affects corporate supply of trade credits. Design/methodology/approach: Using a sample of 14,710 firm-year observations of Chinese listed firms from 1998 to 2012, the authors examine the influence of regional...