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- Ownership structure, corporate governance, and fraud: Evidence from China (2006) (856)
- Institutional monitoring and opportunistic earnings management (2002) (801)
- The Impact of Size, Stock Market Listing, and Auditors on Voluntary Disclosure in Corporate Annual Reports (1979) (593)
- Corporate performance and CEO compensation in China (2006) (575)
- Does the type of ownership control matter? Evidence from China's listed companies (2009) (552)
- Ownership, two-tier board structure, and the informativeness of earnings - Evidence from China (2007) (507)
- Auditor Conservatism, Asymmetric Monitoring, and Earnings Management* (2003) (458)
- Stock market linkages: Evidence from Latin America (2002) (451)
- Inside the Black Box: Bank Credit Allocation in China’s Private Sector (2008) (430)
- The Dynamic Relation Between Stock Returns, Trading Volume, and Volatility (2001) (368)
- Earnings management, surplus free cash flow, and external monitoring (2005) (348)
- Can corporate governance deter management from manipulating earnings? Evidence from related-party sales transactions in China (2010) (320)
- Takeovers, Shareholder Returns, and the Theory of the Firm (1980) (318)
- How Ownership and Corporate Governance Influence Chief Executive Pay in China's Listed Firms (2007) (308)
- Friend or Foe? The Role of State and Mutual Fund Ownership in the Split Share Structure Reform in China (2010) (258)
- Firm Performance, Governance Structure, and Top Management Turnover in a Transitional Economy (2005) (255)
- Leverage and investment under a state-owned bank lending environment : evidence from China (2008) (255)
- Is China's Securities Regulatory Agency a Toothless Tiger? Evidence from Enforcement Actions (2005) (227)
- The provision of nonaudit services by accounting firms to their audit clients (1997) (226)
- Trust and the Provision of Trade Credit (2014) (224)
- The provision of non-audit services and the pricing of audit fees (1997) (224)
- Auditor–Provided Consultancy Services and their Associations with Audit Fees and Audit Opinions (2002) (205)
- IPO underpricing in China’s new stock markets (2004) (195)
- The diffusion of managerial accounting procedures in the People's Republic of China and the influence of foreign partnered joint ventures (1996) (193)
- Control Transfers, Privatization, and Corporate Performance: Efficiency Gains in China's Listed Companies (2008) (192)
- The Client is King: Do Mutual Fund Relationships Bias Analyst Recommendations? (2012) (173)
- Cooking the Books: Recipes and Costs of Falsified Financial Statements in China (2010) (166)
- Corporate investment, government control, and financing channels: Evidence from China's Listed Companies (2012) (161)
- Have China's enterprise reforms led to improved efficiency and profitability? (2006) (158)
- Selection of auditor firms by companies in the new issue market (1992) (158)
- How Do Various Forms of Auditor Rotation Affect Audit Quality? Evidence from China (2012) (149)
- Can Book-Tax Differences Capture Earnings Management and Tax Management? Empirical Evidence from China (2010) (144)
- The Relationship Between Stock Market Returns and Rates of Inflation (1979) (140)
- Institutional stock ownership and firms’ cash dividend policies : evidence from China (2016) (139)
- Are Unsolicited Credit Ratings Lower? International Evidence from Bank Ratings (2005) (130)
- The Impact of Earnings Announcements on the Share Price Behaviour of Similar Type Firms (1976) (128)
- The Effects of Political Connections and State Ownership on Corporate Litigation in China (2011) (126)
- A multivariate analysis of the determinants of Moody's bank financial strength ratings (1999) (125)
- Auditor conservatism and reported earnings (2003) (123)
- Auditors’ Organizational Form, Legal Liability and Reporting Conservatism: Evidence from China (2010) (121)
- Ownership Structure and Risk-Taking: Comparative Evidence from Private and State-Controlled Banks in China (2014) (119)
- Dividend Changes, Abnormal Returns, and Intra-lndustry Firm Valuations (1996) (116)
- Auditor Reputation: The Impact of Critical Reports Issued by Government Inspectors (1990) (116)
- Raising Finance and Firms' Corporate Reporting Policies (1980) (115)
- An analysis of the stock market performance of new issues in New Zealand (1997) (115)
- The Accuracy of Profits Forecasts in Initial Public Offering Prospectuses (1992) (114)
- IPO profit forecasts and their role in signalling firm value and explaining post-listing returns (1998) (112)
- The Information Content of Concurrently Announced Earnings, Cash Dividends, and Stock Dividends: An Investigation of the Chinese Stock Market (2002) (110)
- The Profitability of Takeovers and Mergers (1979) (109)
- The Effect of Governance on Specialist Auditor Choice and Audit Fees in U.S. Family Firms (2014) (105)
- Price setting and the value of a strong brand name (1993) (103)
- Ownership, Corporate Governance and Top Management Pay in Hong Kong (2005) (99)
- Financial Statement Frauds and Auditor Sanctions: An Analysis of Enforcement Actions in China (2005) (95)
- Feature selection using localized generalization error for supervised classification problems using RBFNN (2008) (93)
- Tax, financial reporting, and tunneling incentives for income shifting: An empirical analysis of the transfer pricing behavior of Chinese-listed companies (2010) (89)
- The determinants of top management pay (1999) (86)
- Auditor Quality, Signalling, and the Valuation of Initial Public Offerings (1998) (86)
- A note on the impact of audit qualifications on lending and credit decisions (1980) (86)
- Corporate Transparency and the Impact of Investor Sentiment on Stock Prices (2013) (82)
- Do bears and bulls swim across oceans? Market information transmission between greater China and the rest of the world (2004) (82)
- Earnings forecast errors in IPO prospectuses and their associations with initial stock returns (2001) (82)
- THE RELATIVE INFORMATION-CONTENT OF THE RELEASE OF FINANCIAL RESULTS DATA BY FIRMS (1981) (81)
- Evaluating the Performance of Chinese Commercial Banks: A Comparative Analysis of Different Types of Banks (2015) (78)
- An Empirical Analysis of the Bias and Rationality of Profit Forecasts Published in New Issue Prospectuses (2000) (76)
- Asset pricing in segmented capital markets : preliminary evidence from China-domiciled companies (1998) (76)
- Corporate takeovers, stockholder returns and executive rewards (1991) (73)
- The impact of institutional stockholders and managerial interests on the capital structure of firms (1995) (70)
- The extent of voluntary disclosure in corporate annual reports and its association with security risk measures (1984) (70)
- Return and volatility behavior of dually-traded stocks: the case of Hong Kong (2002) (69)
- Family ownership, corporate governance, and top executive compensation (2006) (66)
- Earnings Persistence and Stock Market Reactions to the Different Information in Book-Tax Differences: Evidence from China (2012) (63)
- The Post-Issue Market Performance of Initial Public Offerings in China's New Stock Markets (2000) (60)
- The Accuracy of Profit Forecasts and their Roles and Associations with IPO Firm Valuations (1999) (58)
- Earnings Management, Corporate Governance and the Market Performance of Seasoned Equity Offerings in Hong Kong (2006) (57)
- Corporate Governance and CEO Compensation in China (2002) (55)
- The remuneration of CEOs and corporate financial performance in Norway (1996) (52)
- Auditor-Client Relationships and Their Impact on Bankers' Perceived Lending Decisions (1981) (50)
- Accuracy of Profit Forecasts Contained in IPO Prospectuses (1992) (50)
- The accuracy of IPO earnings forecasts in Thailand and their relationships with stock market valuation (2005) (49)
- Justifying Top Management Pay in a Transitional Economy (2010) (49)
- Rotate back or not after mandatory audit partner rotation (2012) (49)
- The Effects of Insider Trading on Liquidity (2005) (49)
- Qualified Audit Reports: Their Impact on Investment Decisions (2016) (49)
- Consensus views and judgment models in materiality decisions (1979) (48)
- Signalling models and the valuation of new issues: An examination of IPOs in Singapore (1997) (46)
- The use of accounting information for the valuation of dual-class shares listed on China's stock markets (2002) (46)
- The Price-Volume Relationship in China's Commodity Futures Markets (2004) (45)
- Earnings Management, Corporate Governance and the Market Performance of Seasoned Equity Offerings (2002) (45)
- The impact of airport and seaport privatization on efficiency and performance: A review of the international evidence and implications for developing countries (2012) (42)
- Management of working capital (1976) (41)
- Ownership, governance mechanisms, and agency costs in China’s listed firms (2008) (39)
- Risk Perceptions of Financial Analysts and the Use of Market and Accounting Data (1988) (39)
- The disclosure of information by companies (1979) (38)
- FCF agency costs, earnings management, and investor monitoring (2005) (36)
- Cost of government and firm value (2013) (36)
- Information Content of Insider Trading Around Seasoned Equity Offering (2003) (35)
- Simultaneous Relationships Among Ownership, Corporate Governance, and Financial Performance (2002) (33)
- Valuing IPOs using price-earnings multiples disclosed by IPO firms in an emerging capital market (2008) (33)
- The Role of the Stock Market (1977) (33)
- The transmission of corporate financial information across national borders and equity market linkages (1996) (32)
- The Investment Performance of Unit Trusts in the Period 1965-75 (1977) (32)
- Regulatory Sanctions on Independent Directors and Their Consequences to the Director Labor Market: Evidence from China (2016) (31)
- Beta Estimation and Stability in the US-Listed International Transportation Industry (2006) (31)
- The Efficiency of the Chinese Commodity Futures Markets: Development and Empirical Evidence (2006) (31)
- Have China's Enterprise Reforms Led to Improved Efficiency and Profitability for Privatized Soes? (2002) (30)
- Company takeovers and the auditor choice decision (1999) (28)
- SYNERGISM IN MERGERS: SOME BRITISH RESULTS (1978) (27)
- Double Signals or Single Signal? An Investigation of Insider Trading around Share Repurchases (2008) (24)
- Voluntary Audit Committee Formation and Agency Costs (2006) (24)
- The Implementation and Benefits of Activity‐Based Costing: A Hong Kong Study (2001) (24)
- CEO pay, firm performance, and corporate governance in India's listed firms (2009) (24)
- Auditors’ Reporting Conservatism after Regulatory Sanctions: Evidence from China (2014) (24)
- Takeovers in New Zealand: Motives, stockholder returns, and executive share ownership (1997) (23)
- Relative pay and its effects on firm efficiency in a transitional economy (2015) (23)
- A multiple intelligent agent system for credit risk prediction via an optimization of localized generalization error with diversity (2007) (23)
- Audit pricing following mergers of accounting practices: evidence from Hong Kong (2004) (22)
- The Timeliness and Consequences of Disseminating Public Information by Regulators (2009) (22)
- The double-edged sword of CEO/chairperson duality in corporatized state-owned firms: evidence from top management turnover in China (2014) (21)
- Hello, is anybody there? Corporate accessibility for outside shareholders as a signal of agency problems (2019) (21)
- The efficiency and profitability effects of China's modern enterprise restructuring programme (2008) (20)
- Credit Expansion, Corporate Finance and Overinvestment: Recent Evidence from China☆ (2016) (20)
- The valuation of Shares and the efficient-markets theory (1977) (19)
- An Empirical Investigation of Share Buybacks in Hong Kong (2005) (19)
- Multiple Directorships and Corporate Interlocks in New Zealand Firms (1987) (19)
- Does having a credit rating leave less money on the table when raising capital? A study of credit ratings and seasoned equity offerings in China (2013) (18)
- The growth, determinants, and profitability of nontraditional activities of Chinese commercial banks (2016) (18)
- Determinants of delay in a company's audit report (1995) (17)
- The information content of earnings releases by global airlines (2006) (17)
- Relationship-Based Resource Allocations: Evidence from the Use of “Guanxi” during SEOs (2018) (16)
- Bank Loan Supply and Corporate Capital Structure: Recent Evidence from China (2014) (16)
- The Information Content of Large Investment Holdings (1975) (16)
- Ownership, Board Structure, and the Informativeness of Earnings - Evidence from an Emerging Market (2006) (15)
- IFRS Adoption and Management Earnings Forecasts of Australian IPOs (2017) (14)
- Insider Trading in Hong Kong: Tests of Stock Returns and Trading Frequency (2009) (14)
- An international comparison of analysis' earnings forecast accuracy (1999) (14)
- Auditor quality, corporate risk, and the valuation of new issues (1995) (14)
- The Information Content of Earnings Components: Evidence from the Chinese Stock Market (2011) (14)
- Foundation in Accounting (1985) (13)
- A Parsimonious Description of Individual Differences in Financial Analyst Judgment (1990) (13)
- Paragon or pariah? The consequences of being conspicuously rich in China's new economy (2014) (13)
- Does One Size Fit All? A Study of the Simultaneous Relations Among Ownership, Corporate Governance Mechanisms, and the Financial Performance of Firms in China (2012) (12)
- Incentives for Auditor Independence: An Analysis of the Effectiveness of Formal Sanctions in China (2004) (12)
- Do Bulls and Bears Swim Across Oceans? Market Information Transmission between Greater China and the Rest of the World (2003) (12)
- The spillover effects of the trading suspension of the treasury bond futures market in China (1998) (12)
- Assessing the accuracy of financial analyst security return predictions (1987) (12)
- The GST and Financial Services: Pausing for Perspective (2012) (12)
- The economic performance of privatized firms in the people's republic of china (2000) (11)
- International oligopoly and stock market linkages: The case of global airlines (2008) (11)
- The Efficient-Markets Theory (1977) (11)
- The Effect of Time Pressure on Auditors' Configural Information Processing (1998) (11)
- A Note on the Financial Variable and Ratio Structure of New Zealand Listed Companies (1986) (10)
- Unit trusts : performance and prospects (1978) (9)
- The Impact of Litigation Risk on the Association between Audit Quality and Auditor Size: Evidence from China (2013) (9)
- The response of volume and returns to the information shocks in China's commodity futures markets (2005) (9)
- The Capital Asset Pricing Model (1977) (9)
- The Competitive Effects of Airline Mergers and Acquisitions: More Capital Market Evidence (2006) (9)
- Share prices and mergers : a study of stock market efficiency (1976) (8)
- Managing Discretionary Accruals and Book‐Tax Differences in Anticipation of Tax Rate Increases: Evidence from China (2015) (8)
- Control‐type and the financial structure and performance of New Zealand firms (1992) (7)
- L-GEM based MCS aided candlestick pattern investment strategy in the Shenzhen stock market (2009) (7)
- The Analysis of Working-Capital Positions by Outsiders (1976) (7)
- Institutional Arrangements and Government Audit Independence in China (2016) (7)
- Sustainable entrepreneurship in China : ethics, corporate governance, and institutional reforms (2015) (6)
- Development of Air Transport Industry in the Asia‐Pacific Region (2011) (6)
- Choice of Board Governance and Auditing in U.S. Family Firms (2010) (6)
- Information-based stock trading and managerial incentives: evidence from China's stock market (2014) (5)
- AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION OF THE IMPACT OF THE ACCOUNCEMENT OF CAPITALISATION ISSUES ON SHARE PRICES (1977) (5)
- Bankruptcy Prediction Using Multiple Intelligent Agent System via a Localized Generalization Error Approach (2007) (5)
- Driving the Presence of Investor Sentiment: The Role of Media Tone in IPOs (2015) (4)
- Do agglomeration economies affect the local comovement of stock returns? Evidence from China (2017) (4)
- Leases with Purchase Options and Double Moral Hazard (2006) (4)
- Bankruptcy Prediction Using Multiple Classifier System with Mutual Information Feature Grouping (2006) (4)
- SOME TIME SERIES PROPERTIES OF CORPORATE EARNINGS IN NEW ZEALAND: A NOTE (1982) (4)
- A NOTE ON THE TIME SERIES BEHAVIOUR OF EARNINGS PER SHARE DATA OF TAIWANESE FIRMS (1996) (4)
- Some preliminary evidence on employee share ownership schemes in New Zealand listed companies (1970) (4)
- The Efficient Market Theory of Share Price Behaviour (1975) (4)
- Big 4 Conservatism Around the World (2014) (4)
- How do analysts ’ forecast characteristics relate to investment efficiency ? (2015) (4)
- An Empirical Examination of the Applicability of Adopting the AICPA and NYSE Regulations on Free Share Distributions in the U.K. (1973) (3)
- Choice of Financing and Governance Structures in Transport Industry: Theory and Practice (2016) (3)
- An empirical examination of the price performance of transportation common stocks (2001) (2)
- Moving average crossovers for short-term equity investment with L-GEM based RBFNN (2010) (2)
- Corporate Accessibility, Private Communications and Stock Price Crash Risk (2015) (2)
- Developments in Chinese entrepreneurship : key issues and challenges (2015) (2)
- Earnings Management Choices in Response to Tax Rate Increases (2013) (2)
- Book-tax conforming and book-tax difference earnings management when tax rates change (2010) (2)
- Do Ownership Structure and Governance Mechanisms Have an Effect on Corporate Fraud in China's Listed Firms? (2005) (2)
- Shareholder Behaviour attendant upon Capitalisation Issues (1973) (2)
- Leverage and Investment under a State-Owned Bank Lending Environment: Evidence from China (2008) (2)
- A study of the incidence and impact of capitalisation issues : a report prepared for the Research Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (1974) (2)
- The impact of IFRS adoption on IPO management earnings forecasts in Australia (2020) (2)
- Quantitative Approaches to Forecasting Corporate Profits (1975) (1)
- Investment analysis: Techniques of appraising the British stock market (1975) (1)
- Top Executive Pay in China (2012) (1)
- Judicial Local Protectionism and Home Court Bias in Corporate Litigation (2020) (1)
- Issues in finance (1986) (1)
- Top Management Pay in China (2007) (1)
- Short-Term Forecasting Methods (1976) (1)
- Forecasting Company Profits (1977) (1)
- Corporate Accessibility and Stock Price Crash Risk (2019) (1)
- THE IMPACT OF SIZE, STOCK MARKET VOLUNTARY DISCLOSURE IN CORPORATE ANNUAL REPORTS (1979) (0)
- Reporting Incentive Conflicts and Audit Effectiveness Differentiation between Big Six and Non-Big Six Auditors (2010) (0)
- Cash and Marketable Securities Management (1976) (0)
- Information Asymmetry and the Diversification Discount (2013) (0)
- Information Asymmetry and the Diversification Discount: Evidence from Listed Firms in China (2013) (0)
- Regulatory Sanctions on Independent Directors and Their Consequences to the Director Labor Market: Evidence from China (2014) (0)
- Editorial Board (2013) (0)
- Communicating by employee reports: a survey of employee attitudes (1970) (0)
- Introduction to Working-Capital Management (1976) (0)
- The signaling impact of the suspension of trading in China's trasury bond futures (1999) (0)
- Institutional Arrangements, Audit Storms and Auditor Independence in China (2016) (0)
- The Management of Accounts Receivable (1976) (0)
- Corporate social responsibility in accounting firms and audit quality " evidence from China (2018) (0)
- Short-Term Financing of Working Capital (1976) (0)
- The Valuation of Stocks and Shares (1977) (0)
- Beta estimation in the international transport industry : a high risk - low beta business, or measurement error? (2003) (0)
- Research into Share Price Behaviour (1974) (0)
- The Evaluation of Share Prices (1975) (0)
- The role of credit ratings on capital structure and its speed of adjustment: preliminary evidence from 19 countries (2014) (0)
- Tests of the Efficient-Markets Theory (1977) (0)
- The double-edged sword of CEO/chairperson duality in corporatized state-owned firms: evidence from top management turnover in China (2012) (0)
- The Role of Credit Ratings on Capital Structure and its Speed of Adjustment in Bank-Oriented and Market-Oriented Economies (2014) (0)
- The Market Performance of Conglomerate Firms in the United Kingdom (1979) (0)
- The Role of Forecasting in Business (1975) (0)
- The incremental information content of employee reports for stock market investment decisions (1990) (0)
- Statistical Models of Accounting Data (1977) (0)
- Accounting and Efficient Markets (1977) (0)
- Su C. Does institutional reform improve the impact of investment bank reputation on the long-term stock performance of initial public offerings?. British Accounting Review 2015, 47(4), 445-470 (2016) (0)
- Share Price Behaviour (1976) (0)
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