Over the past two decades, economic reforms have significantly changed the economy and accountancy in China. As the planned centralized economy is gradually replaced by a market-driven economy, the the profession of accountancy is emerging and playing an increasingly important role. This paper...

When extended to sovereign issuers, the Merton‐type structural model suggests a negative relationship between sovereign credit default swap (CDS) spreads and stock prices. In practice, capital structure arbitrage that exploits such relationships should foster the integration of CDS and the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) accelerated deadline on foreign firms, and the 20-F filing practices and factors relating to the filing lags. Design/methodology/approach – The authors identified 338 firms...

We use a threshold citation approach to measure the influence of articles, journals, institutions and researchers in accounting research. The "Journal of Accounting Research", the "Journal of Accounting and Economics" and" Accounting Review" are the 3 most influential journals in accounting...

We examine pedigree and placement effects of research productivity in finance and find a notable placement effect: authors who are currently affiliated with "elite" institutions tend to be more productive, especially among the top three finance journals. The placement effect, however, weakens in...

Over the past 30 years, China has achieved remarkable long-term economic growth. Using quarterly data, we study the effects of money supply on real output and inflation in China between 1993 and 2008. To this end, we use money supply shocks after filtering out the expected component of the money...

We examine the extent to which security analysts are homogeneous in their effect on firm valuation as measured by Tobin's "Q". Earlier research documents a significant and positive relation between analyst coverage and firm valuation. We identify three classes of equity analysts and examine...

We study the establishment and development of the most successful futures market in China. We document the evolution of the market microstructures and the attempts by the Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange's management to improve the performance of the futures market. Our finding suggests that if...

Domestic credit-rating agencies in China have been criticized for having no effect on the decisions of investors. We examine whether credit ratings and rating outlooks of the listed companies that are assigned by Chinese rating agencies have any effect on their stock returns. We use the pooled...