Minority shareholder protection is especially important in countries with weak institutions.
Prior studies indicate that social media facilitates minority shareholder activism by …

This study examines whether and how independent directors with media background affect
financial reporting quality. Using a proprietary dataset of independent directors' …

External regulation is crucial for environmental protection. This study investigates the impact
of media attention on corporate environmental governance from 2011 to 2021, using China's …

This study investigates whether firm status in networks is a burden in the context of negative
rumors. We use a network approach to capture firms' network of affiliations through cross …

This paper examines the governance effect of minority shareholder social media
engagement on merger and acquisition (M&A) outcomes. First, using a sample of Chinese …

This study examines how social connections between media executives and firms affect
initial public offering (IPO) pricing using manually collected Chinese data. We find media …

How do managers comment on merger transactions? By analyzing the initial public
announcements of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) from 1995 through 2020 and extracting …

We suggest that dispersion in news sentiment, representing the dispersion in informative
M&A performance forecasts, effectively captures M&A information uncertainty, disseminates …

We investigate the effect of corporate executives' connections with financial media on
analyst forecast optimism. Some studies document that managers use their connections to …

This study investigates the effects of premerger analyst recommendations on mergers and
acquisitions (M&A) announcement returns. We find that M&A announcement returns …