Institutional investor networks and crash risk: Evidence from China

F Li, Y Jiang - Finance Research Letters, 2022 - Elsevier
We examine the impact of institutional investor networks on stock price crash risk in China.
Using data from 2007 to 2019 on Chinese institutional investors, we document that well …

[HTML][HTML] Do internal capital markets in business groups mitigate firms' financial constraints?

LR Kabbach-de-Castro, G Kirch, R Matta - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2022 - Elsevier
We develop a new rationale for capital allocation in business groups' internal capital
markets. We show that productivity and pledgeable income jointly drive capital allocation …

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown: Firm network status and market response to negative rumors

MX Fan, H Wu, SX Ying, J You - Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigates whether firm status in networks is a burden in the context of negative
rumors. We use a network approach to capture firms' network of affiliations through cross …

Tournament-style political competition and local protectionism: theory and evidence from China

H Fang, M Li, Z Wu - 2022 - nber.org
We argue that inter-jurisdictional competition in a regionally decentralized authoritarian
regime distorts local politicians' incentives in resource allocation among firms from their own …

The interbank market puzzle

F Allen, G Covi, X Gu, O Kowalewski… - Available at SSRN …, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
This study documents significant differences in the interbank market lending and borrowing
levels across countries. We argue that the existing differences in interbank market usage …

Industrial energy regulation: the role of business conglomerates in China

Q Chen, Z Chen, Z Liu, JC Suárez Serrato… - AEA Papers and …, 2021 - aeaweb.org
This paper characterizes the importance of ownership networks of firms that are subject to a
prominent energy regulation in China: the Top 1000 Enterprises Energy-Saving Program …

Network regression and supervised centrality estimation

J Cai, D Yang, W Zhu, H Shen, L Zhao - arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.12921, 2021 - arxiv.org
The centrality in a network is a popular metric for agents' network positions and is often used
in regression models to model the network effect on an outcome variable of interest. In …

How do co‐shareholding networks affect negative media coverage? Evidence from China

L Wang, W Hou, Y Liu - Accounting & Finance, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper explores the relationship between the co‐shareholding network and negative
media coverage in the context of China. We find that the high degree centrality and structural …

[PDF][PDF] The Downside of Tournament-Style Political Competition: Evidence from China

H Fang, M Li, Z Wu - 2022 - sas.upenn.edu
We argue that inter-jurisdictional competition in a regionally decentralized authoritarian
regime distorts local politicians' incentives in resource allocation among firms from their own …

Multilayer Network Regression with Eigenvector Centrality and Community Structure

Z Han, T Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2312.06204, 2023 - arxiv.org
Centrality measures and community structures play a pivotal role in the analysis of complex
networks. To effectively model the impact of the network on our variable of interest, it is …