The Chinese leadership in November 2013 determined to embark upon a new wave of comprehensive reforms in China. This is clearly reflected by the key decision of the Third Plenum of the 18th Central Committee of Communist Party of China to assign the market a decisive role in allocating...

China has gradually recognized that the conventional path of encouraging economic growth at the expense of the environment cannot be sustained. It has to be changed. This article focuses on China's efforts towards energy conservation and environmental quality. The article discusses a variety of...

The existing studies on Green Paradox and stranded assets focus on dirty exhaustible assets (fossil fuel reserves) and show that environmental regulations, by changing the costs of dirty inputs relative to clean ones, lead to replacements of the former by the latter and stranding of dirty assets...

This study examines the effects of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance on bond volatility. After controlling for bond characteristics and firm fundamentals, we find a robust positive relationship between ESG performance and bond volatility. The empirical results demonstrate...

We investigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on global IPO underpricing. Using a sample of 6,113 IPOs from 32 countries, we find that firms issued during the pandemic have 17.6% more underpricing than those issued before the pandemic. We also analyze the effect of firm fundamentals,...

To achieve the commitments to both carbon peaking and carbon neutrality, China should focus on those policies of significant impact on emissions reduction at the lowest cost. Launching the national carbon market with the power generation sector is a good start point in this direction. Since its...