Motivated by the growing attention to the financing decisions of family firms, this review
brings together the two highly relevant research fields of family business and finance. This …

Given the complexity of the family business phenomenon, empirical research has still
reached no consensus on whether family control is beneficial or detrimental to firm …

政治联系是中国资本市场国有上市公司中广泛存在的现象. 本文手工搜集了国有上市公司2004~
2008 年期间关键高管的政治联系数据, 采纳多维的政治联系度量方法, 实证研究了关键高管的 …

This study investigates the relation between corporate political connections and tax
aggressiveness. We study a broad array of corporate political activities, including the …

We examine the role of firms' government connections, defined by government intervention
in CEO appointment and the status of state ownership, in determining the severity of …

Research on the impact of CEO attributes on firm performance is sporadic and fragmented,
with various studies addressing select pieces of the puzzle. Through synthesizing and …

We use exogenous changes in Danish local municipality sizes to identify a large positive
effect of political power on the profitability of firms related by family to local politicians. Our …

Taking advantage of corruption scandals in China, we construct a natural experiment and
identify the ousting of corrupt politicians, and firms connected with them through bribery and …

We use the deaths of directors and chief executive officers as a natural experiment to
generate exogenous variation in the time and resources available to independent directors …

We study shock-based methods for credible causal inference in corporate finance research.
We focus on corporate governance research, survey 13,461 papers published between …