Annual Conference

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Investment Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2019

Measuring Mispricing in the Global Market A New Perspective

Hong ZHANG, Massimo MASSA, Yang (Gloria) YU
The determination of asset prices and the identification of related economic grounds are considerately more intricate in the global market due to the potential market segmentation and frictions. In this paper, we propose and test a novel intuition that cross-country mispricing can be identified when...
Keywords: mispricing, Segmented markets, ADR
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Annual Conference

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Accounting

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May 2018

Political Corruption and Accounting Choices

Jin ZHANG, Huai ZHANG
Using U.S. Department of Justice data on political corruption convictions, I examine how political corruption affects firms’ earnings management. I find that companies headquartered in more corrupt states manipulate earnings downwards. The findings are robust to six alternative corruption measures...
Keywords: Earnings Management, Political Corruption, Rent Seeking
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Annual Conference

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Economic Transformation of Asia, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2018

The Political Economy Consequences of China's Export Slowdown

Davin CHOR, Filipe CAMPANTE, Bingjing LI
We study how adverse economic shocks influence political outcomes in authoritarian regimes in strong states, by examining the 2013-2015 export slowdown in China. We exploit detailed customs data and the variation they reveal about Chinese prefectures’ underlying exposure to the global trade slowdo...
Keywords: Political economy, export slowdown, economic shocks
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Annual Conference

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Economic Transformation of Asia, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2018

Growing Pains in Chinese Social Security System

Hanming FANG, Jingyi ZHANG
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Annual Conference

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International Macroeconomics, Money & Banking, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2018

TechFin at Ant Financial: Credit Market Completion and its Growth Effect

Yi HUANG, Harald HAU, Hongzhe SHAN, Zixia SHENG
Ant Financial provides automated credit lines to more than a million firms trading on Alibaba’s Taobao e-commerce platform. Monthly credit records show how TechFin mitigates local credit supply frictions in China’s segmented credit market and extends the “frontier” of credit availability to ...
Keywords: TechFin, Credit Constraints, micro credit, Entrepreneurship
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