{"title":"Local Financial Agglomeration and Corporate Green Innovation*","authors":"Yu He, Dianna Chang, Ran Wei","doi":"10.1111/ajfs.12443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajfs.12443","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using a large sample of publicly listed firms in China, we examine the relation between local financial agglomeration and corporate green innovation. We document that local financial agglomeration positively affects corporate green innovation output. This positive effect is more pronounced when firms have better environmental performance, when the market-level sentiment for corporate environmental responsibility is higher, or prior to the implementation of a green credit policy in China. Further analysis reveals that local financial agglomeration enhances corporate green investments and the quality of green innovation. Collectively, our findings reveal the real and environmental effects of local financial agglomeration.</p>","PeriodicalId":8570,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies","volume":"52 4","pages":"539-564"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50118823","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Market States and Lottery Preference: Evidence from Chinese Open‐End Funds*","authors":"Rongxin He, Pei-lin Hsieh","doi":"10.1111/ajfs.12437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajfs.12437","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8570,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies","volume":"24 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81183093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Market States and Lottery Preference: Evidence from Chinese Open-End Funds*","authors":"Rongxin He, Pei-Lin Hsieh","doi":"10.1111/ajfs.12437","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajfs.12437","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent studies find that investors prefer funds with lottery-like payoffs. Using a sample of Chinese open-end funds, we show that investors' preference for funds' extreme positive payoffs (MAXs) depend on the state of the market: it is significant for MAXs in an unfavorable market but weak or reversed for those in a favorable market. Such state-dependent preference is irrational because, inconsistent with the flow–MAX relationship, higher MAXs under market downturns are associated with worse performance. We further document support for the salience-theory-based explanation for investors' preference and provide counter-evidence for alternative mechanisms based on rational choice or changes in aggregate flows.</p>","PeriodicalId":8570,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies","volume":"52 5","pages":"678-706"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"71980294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Does Tax-Favored Policy Improve the Profitability of Environmental Protection Firms? An Empirical Study from the Implicit Tax Perspective","authors":"Jifeng Cao, Yiwen Cui","doi":"10.1111/ajfs.12435","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajfs.12435","url":null,"abstract":"<p>An implicit tax is a reduction in the pretax rate of return driven by tax preferences. With increasingly stringent requirements of sustainable development, Chinese government actively promotes environmental protection with the direct corporate income tax rate preferences, which provide a unique opportunity to examine whether implicit taxes remain a significant tax cost in the environmental protection industry. This paper finds the existence of implicit taxes in environmental protection firms and the market structure impedes the realization of implicit taxes. The market power and market concentration reduce the negative effect of tax preferences on the firm's pretax rate of return. The environmental protection firms with lower competition bear lower implicit taxes. These findings are important to evaluate the effectiveness of the tax incentives on environmental protection firms and other tax-favored industries.</p>","PeriodicalId":8570,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies","volume":"52 3","pages":"473-495"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50115554","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caiyu Yan, Xuefei He, Juan Li, Hongqu He, Tianping Ao
{"title":"Multiple Large Shareholders and Firm Performance: Evidence from China*","authors":"Caiyu Yan, Xuefei He, Juan Li, Hongqu He, Tianping Ao","doi":"10.1111/ajfs.12434","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajfs.12434","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Agency theory has shown that multiple large shareholders have competing monitoring and entrenchment governance effects. Therefore, this paper studies the governance effects of multiple large shareholders to determine the dominant effect in the Chinese setting. A panel data model and <i>F-</i>test demonstrate that a significant positive relationship exists between multiple large shareholders and firm performance, but the positive relationship between multiple large shareholders and firm performance will be weakened by state-owned enterprises and politically connected enterprises. Furthermore, our findings suggest that multiple large shareholders can enhance firm performance by mitigating the agent–principal problem and the principal–principal problem. Additionally, a threshold model is introduced to explore the impact of other governance mechanisms on multiple large shareholders' governance, and our findings show that enhancing controlling shareholder governance and board size significantly weakens multiple large shareholders governance, but increasing the proportion of independent directors strengthens the positive relationship between multiple large shareholders and <i>Tobin's Q</i> and weakens the positive relationship between multiple large shareholders and <i>ROA</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":8570,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies","volume":"52 3","pages":"394-435"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50134996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Roles of Finance in ESG Management","authors":"Young Seog Park, Hyo Seob Lee","doi":"10.1111/ajfs.12436","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajfs.12436","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As shareholder capitalism has revealed its limitations since the outbreak of Covid-19, there has been a growing demand for a shift toward stakeholder capitalism. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) management seeks an optimal way to allocate resources to both financial and social values in order to enhance stakeholder utility. Given the various legal, theoretical, and empirical limitations of pluralistic stakeholder capitalism, it is necessary to focus on achieving instrumental stakeholder capitalism. In this regard, we present three roles that finance should play in promoting more firms to adopt ESG management. First, infrastructure needs to be established to measure and assess ESG value in a fair and objective manner. Financial firms should make efforts to develop a non-financial disclosure and certification system, create an ESG index, expand research and investment in this area, and improve credit ratings. Second, there is a need to boost the intermediation of ESG-linked finance in order to enhance utility for firms, investors, and governments. Third, it is crucial to facilitate the trading of ESG value in the market, as this could provide incentives for firms and help them cover the costs associated with ESG investments.</p>","PeriodicalId":8570,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies","volume":"52 3","pages":"354-373"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50133801","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Family Feud: Succession Tournaments and Risk-Taking in Family Firms*","authors":"Jongsub Lee, Hojong Shin, Hayong Yun","doi":"10.1111/ajfs.12432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajfs.12432","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We identify succession as a novel determinant of risk-taking in family firms. We find significantly higher risk-taking (mergers and acquisitions and cash flow volatility) and lower operating efficiency in firms controlled by families with multiple sons during the pre- rather than the postsuccession period compared to family firms with one or no sons. Presuccession risk-taking by sons decreases the following inheritance law amendments that require sharing of wealth among heirs, bolstering the causal interpretation of our findings. An infusion of outside talent via daughters' marriages also alleviates the relative rank-seeking behaviors of sons during succession tournaments.</p>","PeriodicalId":8570,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies","volume":"52 3","pages":"324-353"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50131406","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Less Volatile Value-at-Risk Estimation Under a Semi-parametric Approach*","authors":"Shih-Feng Huang, David K. Wang","doi":"10.1111/ajfs.12433","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajfs.12433","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this study, we propose a two-step, less-volatile value-at-risk (LVaR) estimation using a generalized nearly isotonic regression (GNIR) model. In the proposed approach, a VaR sequence is first produced under the generalized autoregressive conditional heteroskedasticity (GARCH) framework. Then, the VaR sequence is adjusted by GNIR, and the generated estimate is denoted as LVaR. The results of an empirical investigation show that LVaR outperformed other VaR estimates under the classic equally weighted and exponentially weighted moving-average frameworks. Furthermore, we show not only that LVaR is less volatile, but also that it performed reasonably well in various backtests.</p>","PeriodicalId":8570,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies","volume":"52 3","pages":"374-393"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-06-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50150436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Weak Instruments, Degree of Risk Aversion and Equity Premium: Evidence from Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan","authors":"Liona Lai, Henry Tam","doi":"10.1111/ajfs.12422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ajfs.12422","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Using data from Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan, we estimate the coefficient of relative risk aversion (RRA) in the constant relative risk aversion utility specification of the consumption-based capital asset pricing model. Conventional instrumental variables methods find that the coefficient of RRA is low but the inverse of it—the elasticity of intertemporal substitution in consumption—is also low. Such contradictory findings could be attributed to instruments being weak. Using weak-instrument robust tests, we find from the equity market data that the coefficient of RRA is rather high, which could potentially explain the high equity premiums in these three East Asian economies.</p>","PeriodicalId":8570,"journal":{"name":"Asia-Pacific Journal of Financial Studies","volume":"52 2","pages":"292-317"},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2023-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50139552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}