Purpose – The purpose of this study is to examine the change in audit fees for US-listed foreign firms in their first year of providing Section 404 auditor attestation reports for fiscal years ending between July 15, 2006 and July 14, 2007. Design/methodology/approach – During the sampling...

A broad analysis of the stock, bond, and real estate markets in China was conducted to investigate the policy effectiveness of using the lending rate to dampen China's real estate sector. Several important findings emerged: (1) as asset classes, the three markets do not exhibit similar patterns...

This article studies investor sentiment and its relation to the investment behavior of mutual fund investors in China. Using a panel threshold model, we found that investment behavior varies across investor sentiments, especially in a volatile as opposed to a stable period. The study...

We investigate the impact of geographic integration and the level of multinationality by expansion as a foreign branch or representative office on the parent bank performance of 45 European banks during 2000–2007. We use breadth and depth to proxy for the level of multinationality in measuring...