Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

1993 - 2025

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

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Volume 50, issue C, 2018

Effective governance, financial markets, financial institutions & crises pp. 1-15

Balasingham Balachandran and Barry Williams

Explanations of cycles in seasoned equity offerings: An examination of the choice between rights issues and private placements pp. 16-25

Adrian Melia, Howard Chan, Paul Docherty and Steve Easton

Venture capitalists' value-enhancing activities under weak protection of law pp. 26-40

Hui Li, Xiaohui Wu, Ying Ye and Qi Zeng

New evidence on national culture and bank capital structure pp. 41-64

Mamiza Haq, Daniel Hu, Robert Faff and Shams Pathan

The influence of board committee structures on voluntary disclosure of greenhouse gas emissions: Australian evidence pp. 65-81

Chandrasekhar Krishnamurti and Eswaran Velayutham

Target corporate governance, acquirers' location choices, and partial acquisitions pp. 82-104

Man Dang, Darren Henry, Xiangkang Yin and Thi Thuy Anh Vo

Idiosyncratic volatility in the Australian equity market pp. 105-125

Angel Zhong

The bright side of labor protection in emerging markets: The case of firm transparency pp. 126-143

Xiaoran Ni and Weikang Zhu

Corporate boards and performance pricing in private debt contracts pp. 144-162

Intan Suryani Abu Bakar, Arifur Khan, Paul Mather and George Tanewski

Spillovers of price efficiency and informed trading from short sales to margin purchases in absence of uptick rule pp. 163-183

Yih-Wen Shyu, Kam C. Chan and Hsin-Yu Liang

Bank performance and risk-taking — Does directors' busyness matter? pp. 184-199

Shawgat S. Kutubi, Kamran Ahmed and Hayat Khan

A new government bond volatility index predictor for the U.S. equity premium pp. 200-215

Zheyao Pan and Kam Fong Chan

Stock liquidity, corporate governance and leverage: New panel evidence pp. 216-234

Sivathaasan Nadarajah, Searat Ali, Benjamin Liu and Allen Huang

State-varying illiquidity risk in sovereign bond spreads pp. 235-248

Paul Docherty and Steve Easton

Does corporate social responsibility engagement benefit distressed firms? The role of moral and exchange capital pp. 249-262

Kartick Gupta and Chandrasekhar Krishnamurti

Return dispersion and conditional momentum returns: International evidence pp. 263-278

Paul Docherty and Gareth Hurst

Microfinance institutions' website accessibility pp. 279-293

Haileslasie Tadele, Helen Roberts and Rosalind H. Whiting

Volume 49, issue C, 2018

Do Chinese internet stock message boards convey firm-specific information? pp. 1-14

Xiao Li, Dehua Shen and Wei Zhang

Divestment options under tacit and incomplete information pp. 15-29

Qing Ma and Susheng Wang

Board members' influence on resource investments to start-ups and IPO outcomes: Does prior affiliation matter? pp. 30-42

Hidenori Takahashi, Yasuhiro Yamakawa and Prem G. Mathew

Foreign entry and bank competition on financial products in China: A model of bank size pp. 43-59

Xudong Chen, Liming Yao, Zhenye Xu and Qi Xu

Product market competition and corporate social responsibility activities: Perspectives from an emerging economy pp. 60-80

Ji Hye Lee, Hee Sub Byun and Kyung Suh Park

Linguistic distance and mergers and acquisitions: Evidence from China pp. 81-102

Lu Li, Yang Duan, Yuqian He and Kam C. Chan

The role of algorithmic trading in stock liquidity and commonality in electronic limit order markets pp. 103-128

Hiroshi Moriyasu, Marvin Wee and Jing Yu

The puzzling media effect in the Chinese stock market pp. 129-146

Tzu-Lun Huang

Optimistic bias of analysts' earnings forecasts: Does investor sentiment matter in China? pp. 147-163

Yanran Wu, Tingting Liu, Liyan Han and Libo Yin

Market volatility, liquidity shocks, and stock returns: Worldwide evidence pp. 164-199

Rui Ma, Hamish Anderson and Ben Marshall

Speak out your risk: Dialectal effects on merger decisions pp. 200-212

Yang Jiao, Xi Rao, Shijun Guo and Yaseen S. Alhaj-Yaseen

A new method for better portfolio investment: A case of the Korean stock market pp. 213-231

Cheoljun Eom and Jong Won Park

Forecasting the CNY-CNH pricing differential: The role of investor attention pp. 232-247

Liyan Han, Yang Xu and Libo Yin

Volume 48, issue C, 2018

Volume shocks and stock returns: An alternative test pp. 1-16

Angel Zhong, Daniel Chai, Bob Li and Mardy Chiah

Delisting pressure, executive compensation, and corporate fraud: Evidence from China pp. 17-34

Fangzhao Zhou, Zenan Zhang, Jun Yang, Yunpeng Su and Yunbi An

Global price discovery in the Australian dollar market and its determinants pp. 35-55

Fei Su and Jingjing Zhang

Continuing overreaction and momentum in a market with price limits pp. 56-71

Nien-Tzu Yang, Hsiang-Hui Chu, Kuan-Cheng Ko and Shiou-Wen Lee

Insider sales vs. short selling: Negative information trading in Australia pp. 72-83

Allan Hodgson, Wei Da Lim and Lin Mi

Price discovery in China's inter-bank bond market pp. 84-98

Lei Wu, Chunlin Liu, Qingbin Meng and Hongchao Zeng

How profitability differs between conventional and Islamic banks: A dynamic panel data approach pp. 99-111

Halit Yanıkkaya, Nihat Gumus and Yasar Ugur Pabuccu

Insider trading in Australia: Contrarianism and future performance pp. 112-128

Dean Katselas

Financial literacy and financial behavior: Evidence from the emerging Asian middle class pp. 129-143

Antonia Grohmann

Does bank regulation matter on the relationship between competition and financial stability? Evidence from Southeast Asian countries pp. 144-161

Abu Hanifa Md. Noman, Sok-Gee Chan and Che Ruhana Isa

The performance of governmental venture capital firms: A life cycle perspective and evidence from China pp. 162-185

Yuejia Zhang and David Mayes

Investor network: Implications for information diffusion and asset prices pp. 186-209

San-Lin Chung, Wenchien Liu, Wen-Rang Liu and Kevin Tseng

Thriving in a disrupted market: a study of Chinese hedge fund performance pp. 210-223

Ying Sophie Huang, Juan Yao and Yu Zhu

Do foreign investors mitigate anchoring bias in stock market? Evidence based on post-earnings announcement drift pp. 224-240

Heejeong Shin and Sorah Park

Volume 47, issue C, 2018

Do Chinese mutual funds time the market? pp. 1-19

Li Yi, Zilan Liu, Lei He, Zilong Qin and Shunli Gan

Top managerial power and stock price efficiency: Evidence from China pp. 20-38

Meifen Qian, Ping-Wen Sun and Bin Yu

Opportunistic behaviors of credit rating agencies and bond issuers pp. 39-59

Gitae Park and Ho-Young Lee

Regime-dependent herding behavior in Asian and Latin American stock markets pp. 60-78

M. Humayun Kabir and Shamim Shakur

Lucky issuance: The role of numerological superstitions in irrational return premiums pp. 79-91

Pei-Shih Weng

Can technical analysis generate superior returns in securitized property markets? Evidence from East Asia markets pp. 92-108

Bader S. Alhashel, Fahad W. Almudhaf and J. Andrew Hansz

An empirical analysis of corporate currency risk management policies and practices pp. 109-128

Sungjae F. Kim and Don M. Chance

Risk in Islamic banking and corporate governance pp. 129-149

Md Safiullah and Abul Shamsuddin

Individual and peer effects in retirement savings investment choices pp. 150-165

Paul Gerrans, Carly Moulang, Jun Feng and Maria Strydom