Capital market internationalization and firms' ESG performance: Evidence from the inclusion of China A-shares in the MSCI Emerging Market Index

P Zhao, X Yao, R Shen - Energy Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper explores the impact of capital market internationalization on firms' ESG
performance, utilizing the event that China A-shares were officially included in the MSCI …

Corporate social responsibility in market liberalization: Evidence from Shanghai-Hong Kong stock connect

L Yang, B Wang, D Luo - … of International Financial Markets, Institutions and …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper examines how stock market liberalization affects corporate social responsibility
(CSR) performance. Using the launch of the Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect (SHSC) …

The dynamic dependence between the Chinese market and other international stock markets: A time-varying copula approach

K Wang, YH Chen, SW Huang - International Review of Economics & …, 2011 - Elsevier
The purpose of this paper is to study the dependence structures between the Chinese
market and other major world markets, a reflection of China's increasing integration into the …

Financial liberalization and cross-border market integration: Evidence from China's stock market

S Yao, H He, S Chen, J Ou - International Review of Economics & Finance, 2018 - Elsevier
Using the weak-form measure, this paper derives a normalized index to study the impact of
China's financial liberalization policies on its stock market integration with the rest of the …

Stock market openness and market quality: evidence from the shanghai–hong kong stock connect program

K Xu, X Zheng, D Pan, L Xing… - Journal of Financial …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
We study the impact of capital market openness on high‐frequency market quality in China.
The Shanghai–Hong Kong Stock Connect program (SHHKConnect) opens China's stock …

Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect: An analysis of Chinese partial stock market liberalization impact on the local and foreign markets

Y Bai, DYP Chow - Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Connect is a partial liberalization providing domestic
and foreign investors mutual access to stock markets. This study analyzes post-liberalization …

The implications of liquidity ratios: Evidence from Pakistan stock exchange limited

R Ahmed, R Hudson, A Gregoriou - The Quarterly Review of Economics …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this paper we test two recently developed liquidity measures the Return-to-Turnover
(hereafter RtoTR) proposed by Florackis et al.(2011) and Return-to-Volume (hereafter RtoV) …

Cost of government and firm value

M Firth, SX Gong, L Shan - Journal of Corporate Finance, 2013 - Elsevier
Do high expenditures incurred in running the government benefit or hurt firms? Using
Chinese data between 1999 and 2006, we find that higher administrative expenditures in …

Financial liberalisation and international market interdependence: Evidence from China's stock market in the post-WTO accession period

H He, S Chen, S Yao, J Ou - Journal of International Financial Markets …, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper studies China's stock market with respect to financial liberalization and
international market interdependence after its accession to the WTO in 2001. Using the multi …

Overseas listing as a policy tool: Evidence from China's H-shares

Q Sun, WHS Tong, Y Wu - Journal of Banking & Finance, 2013 - Elsevier
We investigate why the Chinese government chooses to perform share issue privatization
(SIP) of its state-owned enterprises (SOEs) in Hong Kong, despite the benefit of facilitating …