Pacific-Basin Finance Journal

1993 - 2025

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

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Volume 78, issue C, 2023

Judging a book by its cover: Analysts and attention-driven price patterns in China's IPO market

Xunan Feng, Anders Johansson and Dengxi Wei

Gambling culture and corporate financialization: Evidence from China's welfare lottery sales

Lixing Xue, Chong Chen, Na Wang and Lirong Zhang

Does financial education help to improve the return on stock investment? Evidence from China

Yong Zhang, Xiaomeng Lu and Jing Jian Xiao

Revisiting the momentum effect in Taiwan: The role of persistency

Hong-Yi Chen, Chia-Hsun Hsieh and Cheng-Few Lee

Does high cash compensation compromise the independence of outside directors? Evidence from directors' dissenting votes in China

Jin-hui Luo, Huaili Dong and Yue Liu

Risk-taking and bank competition under a low interest rate environment: Evidence from loan-level data

Masayo Shikimi

The spillover effect of customers' ESG to suppliers

Jinghua Tang, Xiaoming Wang and Qigui Liu

Predicting stock splits using ensemble machine learning and SMOTE oversampling

Ang Li, Mark Liu and Simon Sheather

Predicting loss given default of unsecured consumer loans with time-varying survival scores

Aimin Li, Zhiyong Li and Anthony Bellotti

Futures trading activity and the jump risk of spot market: Evidence from the bitcoin market

Chuanhai Zhang, Huan Ma and Xiaosai Liao

Regulatory-driven corporate greenwashing: Evidence from “low-carbon city” pilot policy in China

Guanglong Zhang

The green fog: Environmental rating disagreement and corporate greenwashing

Xinwen Hu, Renhai Hua, Qingfu Liu and Chuanjie Wang

When green finance meets banking competition: Evidence from hard-to-abate enterprises of China

Bo Zhou and Cheng Zhang

Where should the money go? The green effect of governmental guidance when sustainable finance impacts brown firms

Cheng Zhang and Bo Zhou

Managerial disposition effect: Evidence from China

Kemin Wang, Guanglong Zhang and Lin Zhou

The soft landing: Does intrafamily succession matter for corporate risk-taking?

Xiaojia Zheng, Bing Zhu and Ge Yang

Internal capital markets and risk-taking: Evidence from China

Wenhao Tan, Ying Chen, Yun Sun, Xiuyuan Guo and Ziwei Li

The power of technology: FinTech and corporate debt default risk in China

Zi Nie, Xuan Ling and Meian Chen

Earnings management, horizon problem, and advisor posts for retiring CEOs

Souhei Ishida, Satoshi Ogoe and Katsushi Suzuki

ESG performance and loan contracting in an emerging market

Kun Qian, Bingjie Shi, Yunling Song and Hao Wu

Who should choose the money managers? Institutional sponsors' equity manager performance

Min-Yeon Han, Sang-Gyung Jun, Ji Yeol Jimmy Oh and Hyoung-Goo Kang

Trade links and return predictability: The Australian evidence

Miao Yu, Xiaolu Hu and Angel Zhong

Funding liquidity in Islamic banks: Does the Shariah supervisory board's higher educational attainment matter?

Md Safiullah

Two-step price adjustments of IPO book building in Japan

Takato Hiraki and Akitoshi Ito

Lead investors' insider ownership and crowd investors' agency concerns in investor-led equity crowdfunding

Xue Chen and Le Ma

Stock market risk and suicide

Kanghyock Koh and Hyojin Han

Financial stress and returns predictability: Fresh evidence from China

Yongan Xu, Chao Liang and Jianqiong Wang

Supply chain finance, green innovation, and productivity: Evidence from China

Haoran Gu, Shenggang Yang, Zhaoyi Xu and Cheng Cheng

ESG disclosure and investor welfare under asymmetric information and imperfect competition

Yucheng Ji, Weijun Xu, Qi Zhao and Zecheng Jia

A catering perspective of performance commitment-evidence from acquisitions in China

Di Song, Na Shen and Jun Su

Volume 77, issue C, 2023

Do government provided credit ratings enhance or impede a firm's access to trade credit?

Rui Fan, Jianping Pan, Jenny Jing Wang and Minggui Yu

Shorting flows and return predictability in Taiwan

Chaonan Lin, Hsiao-Wei Ho and Kuan-Cheng Ko

The effect of Tobin's q on investment in a bank-based financial system: Evidence from Japan

Hideaki Sakawa, Naoki Watanabel, Shohei Yamauchi and Runxi Liu

Information network, public disclosure and asset prices

Ronghua Luo, Senyang Zhao and Jing Zhou

The intra-regional spillover effects of bond defaults: Evidence from the Chinese corporate debt market

Wenlong Wang, Yuqin Huang, John Watson and Bowen Yang

Asset pricing with two types of heterogeneous consumption volatilities in mind: Evidence from China

Qi-An Chen, Huashi Li, Jianyi Lin and Youliang Yan

Heterogeneity in shareholder activism: Evidence from Japan

Stuart L. Gillan, Nga Nguyen and Takeshi Nishikawa

Managerial discretion over initial earnings forecasts

Takuya Iwasaki, Norio Kitagawa and Akinobu Shuto

Do listed companies fulfill their public commitments? Evidence from the stake-raising commitments of Chinese companies

Yitian Feng

Greening through central inspection: The role of legitimacy pressure and risk-taking

Olga Kopyrina, Kai Wu and Zhanyu Ying

Short selling, managerial alignment and corporate misconduct

Jiefei Yang, Yi Xue and Yitong Liu

The impact of financial risk on green innovation: Global evidence

Jun Wen, Xinxin Zhao, Qiang Fu and Chun-Ping Chang

The beta anomaly in the Australian stock market and the lottery demand

Reza Bradrania and Jose Francisco Veron

Equity costs and risks in emerging markets: Are ESG and Sharia principles complementary?

M. Kabir Hassan, Laura Chiaramonte, Alberto Dreassi, Andrea Paltrinieri and Stefano Piserà

Individual investment banker human capital and SEO discount: Evidence from China

Huaili Lyu, Wanjiao Jia and Xiulin Tan

Modernising operational risk management in financial institutions via data-driven causal factors analysis: A pre-registered report

Nikki Cornwell, Christopher Bilson, Adrian Gepp, Steven Stern and Bruce Vanstone

ESG investment in China: Doing well by doing good

Shu Chen, Xiaoyan Han, Zili Zhang and Xuejun Zhao

Pair analyst coverage and return comovement: Evidence from China

Biao Yi and Xueman Xiang

Does market competition foster related party transactions? Evidence from emerging market

Shashank Bansal and Harminder Singh

Mandatory dividend policy and investment efficiency within state-owned business groups

Dongmin Kong, Mianmian Ji and Lihua Liu

Corporate social responsibility and insider trading profitability: Evidence from an emerging market

Tao Li, Yan Wang and Haomin Li

Is controlling shareholders' credit risk contagious to firms? — Evidence from China

Tangrong Li and Xuchu Sun

Over-weighting risk factor augmented with mutual fund managers' social networks

Xing Li and Keqiang Hou

Time-frequency relationship between economic policy uncertainty and financial cycle in China: Evidence from wavelet analysis

Ding Liu, Weihong Sun, Liao Xu and Xuan Zhang

Does corporate ESG create value? New evidence from M&As in China

Zhigang Zheng, Jiarong Li, Xingzi Ren and Jie Michael Guo

Managerial stock ownership, debt covenants, and the cost of debt

Steve Lin, Assma Sawani and Changjiang Wang

Pricing implications of intervention and debt management in the primary market of Japanese government bonds

Kaoru Hosono, Daisuke Miyakawa and Shuji Watanabe

The effect of voluntary and mandatory corporate social responsibility disclosure on firm profitability: Evidence from China

Shuyu Xue, Qi Chang and Jingwen Xu

Does short-term momentum exist in China?

Tian Yue, Tianjiao Li and Xinfeng Ruan

Economic policy uncertainty and mutual fund risk shifting

Deming Luo, Sainan Jiang and Zhongwei Yao

The value of family social capital in informal financial markets: Evidence from China

Wanning Li and Xiuping Hua

State-owned venture capitals and bank loans in China

Long Wu, Lei Xu and Ping Jiang

Dealership versus continuous auction: Evidence from the JASDAQ market

Kentaro Iwatsubo, S. Ghon Rhee and Ye Zhou Zhang

Do manager characteristics matter in equity mutual fund performance? New evidence based on the double-adjusted alpha

Jia-Hui Lin, Meng-Feng Yen and Wei-Cheng Hsieh

Culture and confidence in financial knowledge testing

Elizabeth Ooi

The relationship between cash flow uncertainty and extreme risk: International evidence

Chih-Wei Wang, Chien-Chiang Lee and Lin-Tan Wu

Influence of institutional differences on trade credit use during pandemics

Cheng Zhang, Yun-Chi Lee, Kung-Cheng Ho and Xixi Shen

A continuous-time macro-finance model with Knightian uncertainty

Jie Mao, Guanxiong Shen and Jingzhou Yan

Exploring the zoo of predictors for mutual fund performance in China

Zhiyong Li and Xiao Rao

Does gender diversity matter? Female directors and firm carbon emissions in Japan

Pengda Fan, Xuepeng Qian and Jian Wang

Does engagement by large asset managers enhance governance of target firms?

Wataru Hidaka, Naoshi Ikeda and Kotaro Inoue

The impact of the pitching research framework on AFAANZ grant applications

Chelsea Gill, Vishal Mehrotra, Olayinka Moses and Binh Bui

The impact of central environmental inspection on institutional ownership: Evidence from Chinese listed firms

Quan Li, Yang Chen and Mengfei Wan

A shock to CEOs' external environment: terrorist attacks and CEO pay

Rebecca L. Bachmann, Anna Bedford, Samir Ghannam and Jin Sug Yang

The extreme return connectedness between Sukuk and green bonds and their determinants and consequences for investors

Syed Billah, Amine Ben Amar and Faruk Balli

Directors' and Officers' liability insurance and cross section of expected stock returns: A mispricing explanation

Xuan-Qi Su

An imprecise pricing model for Asian options based on Nonparametric predictive inference

Ting He

The impact of annual reports transparency and comment letters on the cost of debt: Evidence for China

Xiuli Zhu, Xiaohui Li, Kexin Zhou and Yuying Yu