The China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) launched the Campaign for Strengthening Corporate Governance of Public Companies in 2007. As part of this pilot program, public firms were required to report to CSRC whether their boards had established audit committees and whether these audit...

We examine the effect of bank interventions on corporate tax aggressiveness via the lens of debt covenant violations. Using three identification strategies, we find that bank interventions have a negative effect on corporate tax aggressiveness. This effect is less pronounced for more financially...

Purpose - We examine whether the social capital of the area where a firm's headquarters is located affects that firm's credit rating. Given that credit rating agencies only infrequently visit a firm's headquarters, it is pertinent to investigate whether this soft information is considered....