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Analysts’ forecast anchoring and discontinuous market reaction: evidence from China (2024)
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Fan, R., Xiong, X., Li, Y., & Gao, Y. (in press). Analysts’ forecast anchoring and discontinuous market reaction: evidence from China. The European journal of finance, https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2024.2343113

Based on a comprehensive dataset of Chinese A-share stocks, we find significant evidence for analysts’ anchoring in China. This anchoring behavior exists only when forecasts are lower than the industry median and correlates to a series of analysts’ a... Read More about Analysts’ forecast anchoring and discontinuous market reaction: evidence from China.

Financial literacy and household financial resilience (2024)
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Liu, T., Fan, M., Li, Y., & Yue, P. (2024). Financial literacy and household financial resilience. Finance research letters, 63, Article 105378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2024.105378

Rising uncertainty has drawn researchers’ attention towards households’ anti-risk capacities. Using data from the China Household Finance Survey covering 2019 to 2021, this study investigates the impact of financial literacy on household financial re... Read More about Financial literacy and household financial resilience.

Recycling and/or reusing: when product innovation meets the recast of WEEE direct (2024)
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He, J., Yan, W., Li, Y., & Lu, D. (in press). Recycling and/or reusing: when product innovation meets the recast of WEEE direct. International Journal of Production Research, https://doi.org/10.1080/00207543.2024.2317452

To deal with the growing amount of e-waste propelled by introduction of new products, increasing governments are considering amending take-back regulations to impose more stringent collection targets. Motivated by this trend, this study focuses on th... Read More about Recycling and/or reusing: when product innovation meets the recast of WEEE direct.

Climate Change Exposure and Bankruptcy Risk (2024)
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Feng, F., Han, L., Jin, J., & Li, Y. (in press). Climate Change Exposure and Bankruptcy Risk. British Journal of Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-8551.12792

This research documents that a firm's bankruptcy risk increases with its climate change exposure. This study further investigates the underlying mechanisms and finds that this effect is stronger for firms with lower operating cash flows or tighter fi... Read More about Climate Change Exposure and Bankruptcy Risk.

Human capital in the financial sector and corporate innovation: Evidence from China (2024)
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Liu, G., He, F., Zhang, C., Akbar, S., & Li, Y. (2024). Human capital in the financial sector and corporate innovation: Evidence from China. The British accounting review, Article 101370. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bar.2024.101370

This paper investigates how human capital in the financial sector affects corporate innovation. Based on China's National Economic Census in 2008, we construct a measure of the financial sector's human capital across prefecture-level cities and then... Read More about Human capital in the financial sector and corporate innovation: Evidence from China.

A decision making framework for joint replenishment and delivery scheduling problems under mixed uncertainty (2023)
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Wang, G., Zhou, J., Pantelous, A. A., Liu, Y., & Li, Y. (2024). A decision making framework for joint replenishment and delivery scheduling problems under mixed uncertainty. Computers and Industrial Engineering, 187, Article 109835. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cie.2023.109835

Concerning the essence of risk, a joint replenishment and delivery scheduling problem with fuzzy cost-related parameters and random number of imperfect quality items is developed to make it suitable for the inherent uncertainties of procurement-shipm... Read More about A decision making framework for joint replenishment and delivery scheduling problems under mixed uncertainty.

CSR performance and firm idiosyncratic risk in a data-rich environment: The role of retail investor attention (2023)
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He, F., Liu, G., Hao, J., & Li, Y. (2023). CSR performance and firm idiosyncratic risk in a data-rich environment: The role of retail investor attention. Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, 89, Article 101877. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intfin.2023.101877

In the Chinese stock market, there are many retail investors who focus on short-term profits and may consider corporate social responsibility (CSR) differently from institutional investors. We find that CSR significantly reduces firms’ idiosyncratic... Read More about CSR performance and firm idiosyncratic risk in a data-rich environment: The role of retail investor attention.

Do green bonds affect stock returns and corporate environmental performance? Evidence from China (2023)
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Fan, R., Xiong, X., Li, Y., & Gao, Y. (2023). Do green bonds affect stock returns and corporate environmental performance? Evidence from China. Economics letters, 232, Article 111322. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2023.111322

We reveal the positive short-term stock market reaction to the announcement of green bond issuance, which does not exist for factual green bonds. For long-term performance, green bond issuance promotes corporate environmental information disclosure a... Read More about Do green bonds affect stock returns and corporate environmental performance? Evidence from China.

How does green credit policy affect polluting firms' dividend policy? The China experience (2023)
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Li, Y., Liao, M., & Liu, Y. (2023). How does green credit policy affect polluting firms' dividend policy? The China experience. International review of financial analysis, 88, Article 102631. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2023.102631

We explore how polluting firms alter their dividend policy in response to pressure from green credit policy. The green credit guidelines that China adopted in 2012 aim to promote credit supply in sustainable development. Meanwhile, this green credit... Read More about How does green credit policy affect polluting firms' dividend policy? The China experience.

The smog that hovers: Air pollution and asset prices (2023)
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Guo, L., Han, X., & Li, Y. (2023). The smog that hovers: Air pollution and asset prices. Finance research letters, Article 103633. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2023.103633

Air pollution affects mental well-being (mood) and amplifies behavioral biases. We test the adverse impact of air pollution on asset prices through the lens of dual-listed stocks. Using regression analysis and difference-in-differences tests, we docu... Read More about The smog that hovers: Air pollution and asset prices.

The Asymmetric Overnight Return Anomaly in the Chinese Stock Market (2022)
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An, Y., Huang, L., & Li, Y. (2022). The Asymmetric Overnight Return Anomaly in the Chinese Stock Market. Journal of Risk and Financial Management, 15(11), Article 534. https://doi.org/10.3390/jrfm15110534

Traditional asset pricing theory suggests that to compensate for the uncertainty that investors bear, risky assets should generate considerably higher rates of return than the risk-free rate. However, the overnight return anomaly in the Chinese stock... Read More about The Asymmetric Overnight Return Anomaly in the Chinese Stock Market.

Competition or Authorization—Manufacturers’ Choice of Remanufacturing Strategies (2022)
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Wu, Y., & Li, Y. (2022). Competition or Authorization—Manufacturers’ Choice of Remanufacturing Strategies. Sustainability, 14(19), Article 12632. https://doi.org/10.3390/su141912632

In the face of the cannibalization of remanufactured products produced by independent remanufacturers (IRs), original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can produce remanufactured products themselves to compete with independent remanufacturers (IRs), or... Read More about Competition or Authorization—Manufacturers’ Choice of Remanufacturing Strategies.

Momentum and the Cross-section of Stock Volatility (2022)
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Fan, M., Kearney, F., Li, Y., & Liu, J. (2022). Momentum and the Cross-section of Stock Volatility. Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, 144, Article 104524. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jedc.2022.104524

Recent literature shows that momentum strategies exhibit significant downside risks over certain periods, called “momentum crashes”. We find that high uncertainty of momentum strategy returns is sourced from the cross-sectional volatility of individu... Read More about Momentum and the Cross-section of Stock Volatility.

Why do small businesses have difficulty in accessing bank financing? (2022)
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Harrison, R., Li, Y., Vigne, S. A., & Wu, Y. (2022). Why do small businesses have difficulty in accessing bank financing?. International review of financial analysis, 84, Article 102352. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2022.102352

This study investigates bank financing to small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) and evaluates whether the difficulties of SMEs in accessing bank financing during a period of financial crisis are due to a reduction in the supply of credit, or to a... Read More about Why do small businesses have difficulty in accessing bank financing?.

Aggregate Investor Attention and Bitcoin Return: The Long Short-term Memory Networks Perspective (2022)
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Wang, C., Shen, D., & Li, Y. (2022). Aggregate Investor Attention and Bitcoin Return: The Long Short-term Memory Networks Perspective. Finance research letters, 49, Article 103143. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.frl.2022.103143

Investor attention is a scarce cognitive resource which affects investment decisions, and recent studies suggest that investor attention also have impacts on asset prices. Although Bitcoin is found to be one of the most unpredictable cryptocurrencies... Read More about Aggregate Investor Attention and Bitcoin Return: The Long Short-term Memory Networks Perspective.

A reexamination of factor momentum: How strong is it? (2022)
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Fan, M., Li, Y., Liao, M., & Liu, J. (2022). A reexamination of factor momentum: How strong is it?. Financial Review, 57(3), 585-615. https://doi.org/10.1111/fire.12300

Recent studies show that most financial market anomalies exhibit a momentum effect. Based on two datasets, (i) an original 22-factor sample and (ii) a more comprehensive 187-factor sample, we find that factor momentum effect is weak at the individual... Read More about A reexamination of factor momentum: How strong is it?.

How state ownership affects corporate R&D: An inverted‐U‐shaped relationship (2021)
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Fu, T., Jian, Z., & Li, Y. (in press). How state ownership affects corporate R&D: An inverted‐U‐shaped relationship. International journal of finance & economics : IJFE, https://doi.org/10.1002/ijfe.2589

The existing literature provides mixed evidence about the effect of state ownership on corporate research and development (R&D). As this article hypothesizes, state ownership has a positive institutional effect on the investment environment for R&D a... Read More about How state ownership affects corporate R&D: An inverted‐U‐shaped relationship.

What Can Explain Momentum? Evidence from Decomposition (2021)
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Guo, J., Li, P., & Li, Y. (2022). What Can Explain Momentum? Evidence from Decomposition. Management Science, 68(8), 6184-6218. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.2021.4135

This study comprehensively evaluates and ranks a large number of competing explanations for the momentum anomaly. As a benchmark for evaluation, firm fundamentals are found to be the most promising among well-known explanations of momentum, followed... Read More about What Can Explain Momentum? Evidence from Decomposition.

Short-run disequilibrium adjustment and long-run equilibrium in the international stock markets: A network-based approach (2021)
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Chen, Y., Li, Y., Pantelous, A. A., & Stanley, H. E. (2022). Short-run disequilibrium adjustment and long-run equilibrium in the international stock markets: A network-based approach. International review of financial analysis, 79, Article 102002. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2021.102002

In this paper, we propose a network-based analytical framework that exploits cointegration and the error correction model to systematically investigate the directions and intensities in terms of the short-run disequilibrium adjustment towards long-ru... Read More about Short-run disequilibrium adjustment and long-run equilibrium in the international stock markets: A network-based approach.

Shunned stocks and market states (2021)
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Han, X., Li, Y., & Onishchenko, O. (in press). Shunned stocks and market states. The European journal of finance, https://doi.org/10.1080/1351847X.2021.2015699

Hong and Kacperczyk (2009, The price of sin: The effects of social norms on markets. Journal of Financial Economics 93(1), 15–36) document that ‘sin stocks’ (alcohol, tobacco, and gambling) earn relatively high returns on a risk-adjusted basis. We re... Read More about Shunned stocks and market states.