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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 New!

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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Apr 2023

Reducing Racial Disparities in Consumer Credit: Evidence from Anonymous Loan Applications

Tianyue RUAN, Poorya KABIR
Using a unique experiment of anonymizing online loan applications, we find that anonymous loan applications reduce racial disparities in access to credit. With names on applications, ethnic minority applicants are 10.6% less likely to receive online loan offers than otherwise identical ethnic majori...
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Dec 2023

Unraveling the Dividend Puzzle: A Field Experiment

Bohui ZHANG
We conduct a field experiment to test four dividend theories. We enhance managers’ perception of investors’ agency concerns, investors’ risk preference, investors’ information demand, and investors’ tax status respectively in four treatment groups. We find that past payers receiving the ag...
Keywords: Dividend policy, Field experiment, Agency costs, Investor Relations
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Nov 2023

The Rise of E-Wallets and Buy-Now-Pay-Later: Payment Competition, Credit Expansion, and Consumer Behavior

Lin William CONG, Wenlong BIAN, Yang JI
The past decade has witnessed a phenomenal rise of digital wallets, which is further accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Such e-wallets provide not only a conduit to external bank accounts but also internal payment accounts, including the popular BuyNow-Pay-Later (BNPL). We examine, for the first ...
Keywords: Cashless, Consumer Credit, FinTech, Financial Inclusion, Mobile Wallet
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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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Oct 2023

How Do Firms Withstand a Global Economic Shock: Evidence from Within-Firm Responses

Vyacheslav (Slava) FOS, Xiao CHEN, Wei JIANG
China’s Five-Year Plans (industrial policies targeting specific industries) displace US production/employment and heighten plant closures in the same industries. The shocks were not anticipated by the U.S. stock market, but firms in the treated industries suffer valuation loss afterwards. Firms ad...
Keywords: Within-firm adjustment, global economic shocks
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