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Coping strategy of independent directors for job-fulfillment risk under different ownership types and enforced legal environments 不同所有权类型和强制法律环境下独立董事的履职风险应对策略
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China Journal of Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.cjar.2024.100392
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How does digital transformation affect corporate accounting employees? 数字化转型如何影响企业会计员工?
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China Journal of Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-09-28 DOI: 10.1016/j.cjar.2024.100391
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ESG performance and cost of debt 环境、社会和公司治理绩效与债务成本
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China Journal of Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-09-21 DOI: 10.1016/j.cjar.2024.100390
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Personal data security and stock crash risk: Evidence from China’s Cybersecurity Law 个人数据安全与股灾风险:来自中国《网络安全法》的证据
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China Journal of Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-09-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.cjar.2024.100393
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Economic policy uncertainty and firms’ investments in venture capital funds: Evidence from China 经济政策的不确定性与企业对风险投资基金的投资:来自中国的证据
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China Journal of Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-09-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.cjar.2024.100389
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Industrial internet technology, resource reallocation and corporate risk-taking capacity: Evidence from the strategic management perspective 工业互联网技术、资源重新分配和企业风险承担能力:来自战略管理视角的证据
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China Journal of Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-08-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.cjar.2024.100387
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Voluntary resignation of independent directors and auditor responses: Empirical evidence from Chinese A-share listed firms 独立董事的自愿辞职与审计师的回应:来自中国 A 股上市公司的经验证据
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China Journal of Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.cjar.2024.100386
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Overseas operations and corporate financial asset allocation 海外业务和企业金融资产配置
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China Journal of Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-08-12 DOI: 10.1016/j.cjar.2024.100388
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Media coverage and price reactions to earnings news 盈利新闻的媒体报道和价格反应
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China Journal of Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1016/j.cjar.2024.100379
{"title":"Media coverage and price reactions to earnings news","authors":"","doi":"10.1016/j.cjar.2024.100379","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cjar.2024.100379","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>In this study, we find that relative to firms with less media coverage, stock price sensitivity to positive (negative) earnings surprises in earnings announcements of firms with greater media coverage is stronger (weaker). This asymmetry in the effect of media coverage on stock price sensitivity to positive versus negative earnings surprises suggests that greater media coverage of earnings announcements intensifies stock price reactions to positive earnings surprises but attenuates reactions to negative earnings surprises. Moreover, we find that negative earnings news is less persistent for firms with greater media coverage. Overall, our findings support the conjecture that greater media coverage increases managers’ incentive to avoid future negative news, thereby reducing the persistence of poor financial performance and weakening price reactions to negative earnings news.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45688,"journal":{"name":"China Journal of Accounting Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755309124000376/pdfft?md5=10a1b02fe2d111744a248d7f94e26ae3&pid=1-s2.0-S1755309124000376-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141846580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The impact of big data tax administration on corporate ESG—A quasi-natural experiment based on Golden Tax Project III 大数据税收管理对企业 ESG 的影响--基于金税工程 III 的准自然实验
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China Journal of Accounting Research Pub Date : 2024-07-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.cjar.2024.100378
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