Nankai Business Review International: Volume 12 Issue 4

Executive pay bandwagon and stock price crash risk

Hong Luo, Junfeng Wu, Wan Huang, Yongliang Zeng

This paper aims to investigate the impact of executives’ self-interested behaviors induced by the pay bandwagon on stock price crash risk in Chinese listed firms and attempt to…

Does the preference of family board seats allocation influence corporate investment efficiency?

Chun Su, Xing Liu, Huan Shao

This paper aims to investigate the influence of over-allocation and under-allocation of family board seats on the corporate investment efficiency.

Does negative information in MD&A can reduce stock crash risk?

Jianmei Liu

As an important part of the disclosure of listed companies' annual reports, MD&A will disclose some "bad news" about the company. The purpose of this paper is to study whether…

Financing and supervisory effects of credit ratings: evidence from mergers and acquisitions

Qian Xu, Yuhui Wu, Lingling Zhai

The purpose of this paper is to examine how credit ratings affect corporate financial behavior from the perspective of merger and acquisition (M&A) decisions. The goal is to test…

Stock option, contract elements design and corporate innovation output – an analyse based on risk-taking and performance-based incentives

Qi Shi, Shufang Xiao, Kaiwen Chang, Jiaying Wu

With the accelerated technological advancement, innovation has become a critical factor, which affects the core competitiveness of a company. However, studies about the…

Using regime-switching models in Sharia-compliant stocks: performance assessment of investors with discriminated risk-appetite

Hassan Mujtaba Nawaz Saleem, Nurwati A. Ahmad-Zaluki

The paper aims to assess the performance of investors that are discriminated based on their risk-appetite who intend to invest in listed Sharia-compliant (SC) stocks to maximize…

Contributing role of regulatory compliance and Islamic operations in bank risk: evidence from Pakistan

Shahzad Akhtar, Haroon Hussain, Rana Yassir Hussain

This study aims to estimate the regulatory compliance impact on the risk of banks operating in Pakistan. The direct and indirect regulatory compliance of conventional banks with…