Annual Conference

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Accounting, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2017

Why Do Publicly Listed Firms Evade Taxes? Evidence from China

Bin KE, Yao ZHANG, Travis CHOW, Hongqi YUAN
Taking advantage of the mandatory disclosure of detected corporate tax evasions in China, we examine why publicly listed firms evade taxes. Different from most prior studies that focus on corporate income tax avoidance, we consider tax evasions related to both income taxes and non-income taxes. We a...
Keywords: tax avoidance, Tax evasion, China, SOE
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Annual Conference

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Accounting

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May 2023

When Machine Comes to Town: Fund Analysts’ Performance with Artificial Intelligence

Grace Haoqing FAN, Xi KANG
How does the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) technology affect the performance of mutual fund analysts? Using a unique setting in which AI was introduced to generate ratings for previously uncovered mutual funds in a large financial research company, we find that the analyst ratings’ ...
Keywords: artificial intelligence, machine learning, mutual fund, analyst performance, social connection, benc
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Annual Conference

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Accounting

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May 2021

What Should Investors Care About? Mutual Fund Ratings by Analyst vs Machine Learning Technique

Si CHENG, Xiaojun ZHANG, Ruichang LU
We examine two forward-looking mutual fund ratings: the analyst rating produced by human analysts and the quantitative rating generated by a machine learning technique. The analyst rating identifies outperforming funds, while the quantitative rating does not—this difference derives mostly from the...
Keywords: Analyst Rating, Quantitative Rating, Mutual Funds, Information provision, machine learning
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Annual Conference

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Accounting

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May 2015

What Determines Auditors' Career Outcomes?

Bin KE, Xianjie HE
Taking advantage of a unique data set from China about individual auditors’ personal backgrounds, we examine the factors that affect auditors’ demotion and promotion outcomes. We find that ability, accounting knowledge, and on-the-job performance all matter in auditors’ demotions and promotion...
Keywords: auditors, promotion, demotion, gender, China
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Annual Conference

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Accounting

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May 2018

Uneven Regulatory Playing Field and Bank Transparency Abroad

Tai-Yuan CHEN, Yi-Chun CHEN, Mingyi HUNG
We study the implications of cross-country regulatory differences on banks’ transparency and stability abroad. Using a global sample of banks’ majority-owned foreign subsidiaries, we find that foreign subsidiaries’ transparency decreases when their home countries have tighter activity restrict...
Keywords: transparency within and among MNEs and national states, agency theory, multinational corporations (MNCs) and enterprises (MNEs), headquarters–subsidiary roles and relations
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