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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Oct 2021

Understanding Retail Investors: Evidence from China

Charles M. JONES, Donghui SHI, Xinran ZHANG, Xiaoyan ZHANG
Using comprehensive account-level data from 2016 to 2019, we examine retail investor trading behavior in the Chinese stock market. We separate millions of retail investors into five groups by their account sizes and document strong heterogeneity in their trading dynamics and performance. Retail inve...
Keywords: retail investors, Chinese stock market, return predictability, liquidity, information content
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Jan 2024

The Value of Bankruptcy Enforcement in Financial Distress: Evidence from the Chinese Bond Market

Bo LI, Mai LI, Songnan LI, Laura Xiaolei LIU
The bankruptcy process in many countries is lengthy and cumbersome, which prevents creditors from getting repaid efficiently in distress. Exploiting the staggered introduction of specialized bankruptcy courts in China, we find that they lead to sizable reductions in the cost of debt financing. In pa...
Keywords: Bankruptcy Resolution, Creditor Protection, Cost of Debt, China’s Bond Market
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Innovation, Productivity and Challenges in the Digital Era: Asia and Beyond

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Jan 2023

The Supply and Demand for Data Privacy: Evidence from Mobile Apps

Huan TANG, Bo BIAN, Xinchen MA
This paper investigates how consumers and investors react to the standardized disclosure of data privacy practices. Since December 2020, Apple has required all apps to disclose their data collection practices by filling out privacy “nutrition” labels that are standardized and easy to read. We we...
Keywords: Privacy labels, App Tracking Transparency policy, Data protection, Mobile apps, Product markets, Eve
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Mar 2021

The SOE Premium and Government Support in China's Credit Market

Jun PAN, Zhe GENG
Studying China’s credit market, we find improved price efficiency and paradoxically, worsening segmentation as, amid government-led credit tightening, perceived government support for state-owned enterprises (SOEs) causes the credit spreads of non-SOEs to explode relative to their SOE counterparts...
Keywords: SOE Premium, Government Support, Credit Risk, Price Discovery, Chinese Corporate Bond
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Senior Fellows/Fellows, Pandemic

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May 2020

The Role of Corporate Culture in Bad Times: Evidence from the COVID-19 Pandemic

Kai LI, Xing LIU, Feng MAI, Tengfei ZHANG
After fitting a topic model to 40,927 COVID-19-related paragraphs in 3,581 earnings calls over the period January 22 to April 30, 2020, we obtain firm-level measures of exposure and response related to COVID-19 for 2,894 U.S. firms. We show that despite the large negative impact of COVID-19 on their...
Keywords: corporate culture, COVID-19, Pandemic, demand, supply chain, employees, community, digital transformation, new product development, Human capital, machine learning, topic modeling, correlated topic model
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