Last. Duc Khuong Nguyen(VNU: Vietnam National University, Hanoi)H-Index: 52
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Abstract null null Small and medium-sized firms, particularly startups, are highly vulnerable to the COVID-19 pandemic because of their financial instability. Using a sample of listed startups across four countries, we investigate whether a startup's built-up capacity pre-COVID-19 can stimulate corporate immunity to endure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, reflected via stock performance. We find that the increase in the accumulated COVID-19 confirmed cases worsens stock returns and that the ...
Last. Jia Liu(University of Portsmouth)H-Index: 12
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Abstract null null This paper documents that both domestic and cross-country economic policy uncertainty have significant impacts on the behaviours of domestic analysts in the United Kingdom. Specifically, domestic economic policy uncertainty has significant negative impacts on analyst earnings forecast accuracy, dispersion, and both analyst recommendation upgrades and downgrades, whereas it has no significant impact on analyst coverage in the United Kingdom. An industry analysis shows that the ...
Last. Alvaro Rezola(UAM: Autonomous University of Madrid)H-Index: 2
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Abstract null null This article analyzes the main problems and the solutions adopted in the market for Initial Coin Offerings (ICO), to anticipate the future of this market and determine implications for issuers, investors and regulators. ICOs represent an alternative and innovative financing solution that has experienced spectacular growth and notoriety in recent years. ICOs rely on Blockchain protocols and the ICO market is, therefore, characterized as decentralized, disintermediated and unreg...
Abstract null null We analyse the relationship between female directors and payout policy for a sample of non-financial Spanish listed firms. Based on the critical mass theory, we find an inverted-U shaped relationship. For low levels of female representation in the board, women directors increase dividends in order to reduce agency conflicts, and improve reputation or legitimacy. However, after an inflection point, characteristics traditionally associated to women, such as risk aversion, a cons...
Last. Roger Strange(University of Sussex)H-Index: 30
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Abstract null null Minority investors' reliance on market discipline can vary with different country-level investor protection and firm-level corporate governance environments, which affect both discipline and rent extraction incentives of foreign institutional investors (FIIs). Using data from 47 economies between 2009 and 2017, we find that firm value increases with FIIs aggressive trading but decreases with FIIs discreet trading. The positive and negative impacts of FIIs trading are strengthe...
Abstract null null Using data from Renrendai and three machine learning algorithms, namely, k-nearest neighbor, support vector machine, and random forest, we predicted the default probability of online loan borrowers and compared their prediction performance with that of a logistic model. The results show that, first, based on the AUC (area under the ROC curve) value, accuracy rate and Brier score, the machine learning models can accurately predict the default risk of online borrowers. Second, t...
#1Xiaomei Han(NUST: Nanjing University of Science and Technology)
#2Jie Wang(NUST: Nanjing University of Science and Technology)
Last. Hanxiu Cheng(NUST: Nanjing University of Science and Technology)
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Abstract null null Corporate tax avoidance is ubiquitous and has a wide range of economic implications. In this paper, we investigate the effect of corporate tax avoidance on the pay level for employees and the internal pay gap between executives and ordinary employees based on the perspective of salary distribution. The results show that corporate tax avoidance can significantly improve the average pay level of all the staff, but the “inclusive” benefit on employee remuneration brought by tax a...
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