Affected by complicated issues, such as regional conflicts, trade wars, and the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturing firms face enormous challenges in reconstructing the global supply chain landscape to form new cooperative innovation mechanisms. This study investigates the relationship between...

This book is written in Chinese language. Options and futures are among the most important tools in today’s financial world. While the book focuses on the contracts traded on derivatives exchange – options and futures – we will also scrutinize the OTC-markets and exotic deals. Due to its...

This study addresses the debate over the relation between institutional ownership and dividend payout through the lens of the agency theory. We hypothesize that only institutional investors with certain traits are likely to monitor and conditioning on firms' financial performance, they will use...

During the past decade, WeChat public accounts (WPAs) have gained increasing popularity as a novel tool for voluntary disclosure among Chinese public firms. This paper examines whether WPA disclosures provide value-relevant information to the market. Using a topic model to process over 1.6...