China Accounting and Finance Review: Volume 24 Issue 4 , Open Access

Hedge fund activism and internal control weaknesses

David Folsom, Iftekhar Hasan, Yinjie (Victor) Shen, Fuzhao Zhou

The aim of the paper is to investigate the associations between hedge fund activism and corporate internal control weaknesses.

The influence of network platform interaction on corporate total factor productivity: evidence from China stock exchange investor interactive platforms

Yingbing Jiang, Chuanxin Xu, Xu Ban

The aim of this paper is to study the impact of the questions and answers (Q&A) between investors and enterprises from the China stock exchange investor interactive platforms on…

The impact of regional economic incentives on underwriters' market share in China

Stephen Gong, Liwei Shan, Li Yu

To examine whether and how the different levels of regional economic incentives would have an effect on underwriters' market share in general.

Dividend regulation and cost stickiness: evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Liangyin Chen, Jun Huang, Danqi Hu, Xinyuan Chen

This paper aims to examine the effect of dividend regulation on cost stickiness (i.e. the asymmetric change in firm expense between sales increase and sales decrease) and explore…

CEO facial trustworthiness and corporate governance

Wenjie Bi, Yujie Wang, Yi Xiang, Feida Zhang

In this paper the authors aim to argue that the existence of a strong corporate governance mechanism (a formal credibility-enhancing mechanism) and the presence of a more…