Environmental performance has gained great prominence for firms in recent years. This
paper examines the effect of corporate environmental information disclosure on stock price …

Prior studies show that higher corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance lowers
firms' cost of debt and equity financing. Using a sample of 16,463 US firm-year observations …

We propose that firms in regions with strong tax enforcement efforts have low stock price
crash risk. Using a large sample of Chinese firms from 2003 to 2017, we find that tax …

This study examines the impact of board directors with foreign experience (BDFEs) on stock
price crash risk. We find that BDFEs help reduce crash risk. This association is robust to a …

Purpose Understanding and mitigating stock price crash risk is vital for investors and
regulators to ensure financial market stability. This study aims to unveil significant research …

We show how board social capital influences stock price crash risk. Considering that
directors are embedded in two kinds of social capital—internal and external—the …

Using a large sample of US data, we examine the relation between trade credit and cost
behaviour and further investigate the moderating effects on this relation of agency problem …

We investigate the influence of trade-credit provision on stock-price crash risk in an
emerging-market setting. Using a sample of Chinese listed firms, we find that trade credit …

We use a sample of Chinese firms to examine the impact of social trust, as an informal
institution, on firm financing violations. Our findings suggest that when a firm is located in a …

We investigate a new channel that leads to firm-specific stock price crash risk. By using
Chinese superstition towards unlucky numbers as a platform for our analysis, we find that …