This paper investigates the relationship between firm performance and corporate governancein China. Firm performance is measured by Tobin's Q, while corporate governance is determinedbased on ownership structure and concentration. Prior research, in both China and elsewhere,indicates that...

Our study of 531 Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) on the two Chinese Stock Exchanges during the period 1999 to 2004 indicates initial returns to investors of approximately 114.04 per cent and these earnings were sustained through the first month of trading. High initial returns on IPOs are most...

An attempt is made to verify the exchange rate regime that China has been following since 21 July 2005 when a policy shift was implemented, presumably taking China from a dollar peg to a basket peg. The results show that while a regime of simple and strict dollar peg has indeed been abandoned,...

This paper investigates the relationship between firm performance and corporate governance in China. Firm performance is measured by Tobin's "Q", while corporate governance is determined based on ownership structure and concentration. Prior research, in both China and elsewhere, indicates that...

Board characteristics have not been a significant area of study in the IPO literature. We focus on the emerging corporate governance reform in China to investigate the relationship between a range of board characteristics and IPO initial returns and long-term performance. We find evidence that...

We demonstrate, using Extreme Bounds Analysis (EBA), that some of the firm-specific determinants of the capital structure of Chinese firms reported as important in previous studies may be fragile, in the sense that the sign and/or significance of the coefficients on these variables change...