Purpose The world economy has experienced several economic downturns, and each
phase emphasised that no industry is immune to inappropriate risk-management practices …

This article offers a systematic literature review and a bibliometric analysis of articles
published over the history of the journal Abacus and marks its 55th anniversary. The article …

This study investigates whether and how institutional investors' information acquisition
affects controlling shareholder's share pledging. Taking a unique data of institutional …

Solving the crash risk problem of corporate stock price caused by information asymmetry
can mitigate the negative externality of its carbon emission to become green, low-carbon …

Business strategies play a vital role in a firm's success but, if not properly executed, can lead
to financial irregularities and mispricing, influencing the firm's performance and leading to …

We study the impact of stock market liberalisation through the Mainland China–Hong Kong
Stock Connect (CHSC) program on the corporate financialisation of listed firms in Mainland …

Food safety liability insurance is a way to alleviate financial crisis such as stock price crash
when food safety incident occurred. This study evaluates the causal effects of compulsory …

Taking Chinese non-financial A-share companies listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange
(SZSE) between 2003 and 2018 as a sample, this paper empirically examines whether and …

This study shows that the use of private information obtained during company visits is
related to managerial skills. We construct a novel measure of a mutual fund's capability of …

This paper investigates the impact of institutional investors' knowledge acquisition through
corporate site visits (IICSV) on stock price crash risk (SPCR) for firms with and without SPCR …