Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

1993 - 2025

Current editor(s): K. Chan and S. Ghon Rhee

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Volume 73, issue C, 2022

Common ownership and the spillover effect of market reaction: Evidence from stock exchange comment letters

Qijian Wang and Kaiguo Zhou

Outbreak risk, managerial distraction, and corporate information disclosure: Evidence from the COVID-19 pandemic

Brian Yutao Wang, Ruiyao Xu and Jing Zhang

Firm performance following actual share repurchases: Effects of investment crowding out and financial flexibility

Ching-Hsiang Chao and Chih-Jen Huang

Chinese stock anomalies and investor sentiment

Chunmao Han and Yongdong Shi

Do multiple large shareholders affect corporate bond yield spreads? Evidence from China

Xin Wang, Yan Xie, Di Song and Weihua Zhang

On the side effects of mandatory gender diversity laws in corporate boards

Vijaya Bhaskar Marisetty and Salu Prasad

Minority shareholders protection and corporate financial leverage: Evidence from a natural experiment in China

Qingzi Cao, Ming Fang and Yuying Pan

Corporate policies and outcomes during the COVID-19 crisis: Does managerial ability matter?

Khalil Jebran and Shihua Chen

Hometown-based business associations and M&As performance: Evidence from China

Jibin Yang, Fansheng Jia, Shanmin Li and Wenfeng Wu

Credit policy, uncertainty, and firm R&D investment: A quasi-natural experiment based on the Green Credit Guidelines

Dongyang Zhang and Qunxi Kong

Systemic risk in financial institutions: A multiplex network approach

Yiwei Xie, Feng Jiao, Shihan Li, Qingfu Liu and Yiuman Tse

Does directors' and officers' liability insurance induce empire building? Evidence from corporate labor investment

Qing Sophie Wang, Shaojie Lai, Shuwen Pi and Hamish Anderson

A tale of riskiness: The real effects of share pledging on the Chinese stock market

Chang, Jeffery (Jinfan), Qingbin Meng and Xiaoran Ni

Internationalization and the reliance of analyst forecasts in stakeholder-oriented corporate governance: Evidence from Japanese MNEs

Hideaki Sakawa, Naoki Watanabel and Junjian Gu

Political uncertainty and deal structure: Evidence from Australian mining project acquisitions

Andrew Ferguson, Wei Hu and Peter Lam

Stock return asymmetry in China

Dongxu Chen, Ke Wu and Yifeng Zhu

Are analysts' cash flow forecasts associated with improved earnings quality? Australian evidence

Jeffrey J. Coulton, Naibuka Saune and Stephen L. Taylor

A new momentum measurement in the Chinese stock market

Yan Li, Chao Liang and Toan L.D. Huynh

The effect of local government debt on green innovation: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Wen Chen, Yufeng Zhu, Zehui He and Yang Yang

The negative hiring rate premium on stock returns in the Korean stock market

Jaewan Bae and Jangkoo Kang

Foreign strategic investors and bank credit risk in China: Disclosure, finance or management effects?

Lin Yuan, Yang Zhong and Zhou Lu

The effect of ownership structure on corporate payout policy and performance: Evidence from Korea's exogenous dividends tax shock

Yu Kyung Lee

Do volatility spillover and hedging among GCC stock markets and global factors vary from normal to turbulent periods? Evidence from the global financial crisis and Covid-19 pandemic crisis

Imran Yousaf, Makram Beljid, Anis Chaibi and Ahmed AL Ajlouni

Islamic equity investments and the COVID-19 pandemic

Dawood Ashraf, Muhammad Suhail Rizwan and Ghufran Ahmad

Does prospect theory explain mutual fund performance? Evidence from China

Bin Yu, Yifan Shen, Xuejun Jin and Qi Xu

The influence of mobile trading on return dispersion and herding behavior

Zhuolei Li, Xundi Diao and Chongfeng Wu

Search for safe havens and resilience to global financial volatility: Response of GCC equity indexes to GFC and Covid-19

M. Kabir Hassan, Muhammad Kamran, Hadrian Geri Djajadikerta and Tonmoy Choudhury

The cash conversion cycle spread in China

Xin Chen, Gaoping Zheng and Daniel Chai

Firms with short-termism: Evidence from expatriate controlling shareholders

Xue Tan, Lin Yu and Hung-Gay Fung

Investor's herding behavior in Asian equity markets during COVID-19 period

Rui Jiang, Conghua Wen, Ruonan Zhang and Yu Cui

Effect of futures trading on the liquidity of underlying stocks: Evidence from Vietnam

Son Duy Pham, Thao Thac Thanh Nguyen and Hung Do

Leverage effect in cryptocurrency markets

Jingzhi Huang, Jun Ni and Li Xu

Are Islamic banks more resilient to the crises vis-à-vis conventional banks? Evidence from the COVID-19 shock using stock market data

Badar Nadeem Ashraf, Mosab I. Tabash and M. Kabir Hassan

Short sales, short risk, and return predictability in Asia-Pacific real estate markets

George D. Cashman, David M. Harrison and Hainan Sheng

Australian innovation: Patent database construction and first evidence

Anna Bedford, Le Ma, Nelson Ma and Kristina Vojvoda

Natural disasters and CSR: Evidence from China

Zhongda He, Biao Guo, Yukun Shi and Yang Zhao

CEO-CFO tenure consistency and audit fees

Yongbin Cai and Mengzhe Li

Volume 72, issue C, 2022

The crowding out effect of central versus local government debt: Evidence from China

Man Zhang, Oscar T. Brookins and Xiaowei Huang

Independent directors' reputation incentives and firm performance – an Australian perspective

Quyen Le, Alireza Vafaei, Kamran Ahmed and Shawgat Kutubi

Does firm-level productivity predict stock returns?

Takashi Hiroki, Kentaro Iwatsubo and Clinton Watkins

The profitability effect: An evaluation of alternative explanations

Hsin-Yi Yu, Li-Wen Chen and Chang-Yi Chen

Spillover and risk transmission between the term structure of the US interest rates and Islamic equities

Zaghum Umar, Imran Yousaf, Mariya Gubareva and Xuan Vinh Vo

Pairs trading and asset pricing

Yun Xiang and Jiaxuan He

Insider ownership and stock price crash risk around the globe

Gang Hu, Yiye Liu, Jacqueline Wenjie Wang, Gaoguang Zhou and Xindong Zhu

What influences stock market co-movements between China and its Asia-Pacific trading partners after the Global Financial Crisis?

Yujie Shi

Environmental preference, air pollution, and fund flows in China

Hoje Jo, Hee-Eun Kim and Myounghwa Sim

Thirst for money: External guarantees and stock price crash risk

Kai Wu, Zejun Jin and Maobin Xu

Spillovers between Sukuks and Shariah-compliant equity markets

Faruk Balli, Syed Billah, Hatice Balli and Anne De Bruin

Social trust and dividend payouts: Evidence from China

Wei Qin, Quanxi Liang, Yan Jiao, Meiting Lu and Yaowen Shan

Do domestic or foreign institutional investors matter? The case of firm information asymmetry in Korea

Chune Young Chung, Hyeik Kim and Kainan Wang

Can financial factors affect corporate debt leverage convergence?

Hailian Xiao, Ying Zhao and Meihua Zhou

Does higher investments necessarily reduce stock returns?☆

Huixuan Li and Jing Chen

Digital finance and corporate bankruptcy risk: Evidence from China

Yu Ji, Lina Shi and Shunming Zhang

Does the momentum gap explain momentum in Taiwan?

Chaonan Lin, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Nien-Tzu Yang

The role of cash holdings during financial crises

Chong-Chuo Chang and Han Yang

China's historical imperial examination system and corporate social responsibility

Xiaoran Kong, Xueying Zhang, Cheng Yan and Kung-Cheng Ho

Does air pollution affect earnings management? Evidence from China

Dequan Jiang, Weiping Li, Yongjian Shen and Shuangli Yu