Edward Lee

University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School

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Booth St. West (Crawford House)

Manchester, M15 6PB

United Kingdom

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Incentives or Standards: What Determines Accounting Quality Changes Around IFRS Adoption?

European Accounting Review Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 10 Sep 2007 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2015
Hans Bonde Christensen, Edward Lee, Martin Walker and Cheng Zeng
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester - Manchester Business School and University of Manchester
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IFRS, IAS, accounting quality, international accounting

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Do IFRS Reconciliations Convey Information? The Effect of Debt Contracting

Journal of Accounting Research vol. 47(5), pages 1167-1199, December 2009
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 16 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 12 Aug 2014
Hans Bonde Christensen, Edward Lee and Martin Walker
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School and University of Manchester - Manchester Business School
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debt contracting, mandatory accounting change, International Financial Reporting Standards

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CEO Accountability for Corporate Fraud: Evidence from the Split Share Structure Reform in China

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CEO Accountability for Corporate Fraud: Evidence from the Split Share Structure Reform in China

Journal of Business Ethics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 10 Jul 2011 Last Revised: 24 Nov 2014
Jiandong Chen, Douglas J. Cumming, Wenxuan Hou and Edward Lee
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Florida Atlantic University, University of Edinburgh - Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Corporate fraud, CEO turnover, State ownership, Split Share Structure Reform, China

CEO Accountability for Corporate Fraud: Evidence from the Split Share Structure Reform in China

Journal of Business Ethics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 20 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2016
Jiandong Chen, Douglas J. Cumming, Wenxuan Hou and Edward Lee
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Florida Atlantic University, University of Edinburgh - Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Corporate fraud; CEO turnover; State ownership; Split Share Structure Reform; China

CEO Accountability for Corporate Fraud: Evidence from the Split Share Structure Reform in China

Journal of Business Ethics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 04 Feb 2014 Last Revised: 11 Nov 2014
Jiandong Chen, Douglas J. Cumming, Wenxuan Hou and Edward Lee
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Florida Atlantic University, University of Edinburgh - Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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CEO turnover; corporate fraud; ownership; Split Share Structure Reform; China

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Executive Integrity, Audit Opinion, and Fraud in Chinese Listed Firms

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Executive Integrity, Audit Opinion, and Fraud in Chinese Listed Firms

Emerging Markets Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42 Posted: 14 May 2011 Last Revised: 24 Jun 2013
Jiandong Chen, Douglas J. Cumming, Wenxuan Hou and Edward Lee
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Florida Atlantic University, University of Edinburgh - Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Auditor, earnings management, fraud, integrity, ethics, China

Executive Integrity, Audit Opinion, and Fraud in Chinese Listed Firms

Emerging Markets Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 01 Jan 2013
Jiandong Chen, Douglas J. Cumming, Wenxuan Hou and Edward Lee
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Florida Atlantic University, University of Edinburgh - Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Integrity, auditor, earnings management, fraud, China, MAO

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Corporate Debt Maturity and Stock Price Crash Risk

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Corporate Debt Maturity and Stock Price Crash Risk

European Financial Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 15 Feb 2016 Last Revised: 26 Mar 2017
Viet Anh Dang, Edward Lee, Yangke Liu and Cheng Zeng
Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, Queen's Management School and University of Manchester
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Debt maturity; Stock price crash risk; Corporate governance; Information asymmetry

Corporate Debt Maturity and Stock Price Crash Risk

European Financial Management, Vol. 24, Issue 3, pp. 451-484, 2018
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Jun 2018
Viet Anh Dang, Edward Lee, Yangke Liu and Cheng (Colin) Zeng
Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, Queen's Management School and University of Manchester
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debt maturity, corporate governance, information asymmetry, stock price crash risk

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Split Share Structure Reform, Corporate Governance, and the Foreign Share Discount Puzzle in China

European Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 23 Jan 2012
Wenxuan Hou and Edward Lee
University of Edinburgh - Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Split Share Structure Reform, corporate governance, foreign share discount, ownership structure, China

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UK Executive Stock Option Valuation: A Conditional Model

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UK Executive Stock Option Valuation: A Conditional Model

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 04 Feb 2005
Edward Lee, Konstantinos Vonatsos and Konstantinos Stathopoulos
University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester Business School and The University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Managerial Compensation, Executive Stock Options, Option Valuation

UK Executive Stock Option Valuation: A Conditional Model

Corporate Governance: An International Review, Vol. 15, Issue 6, pp. 1469-1479, November 2007
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 13 Dec 2007
Edward Lee, Konstantinos Vonatsos and Konstantinos Stathopoulos
University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, Manchester Business School and The University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Corporate Dividend Payout and Earnings Management: Evidence from Chinese Regulatory Changes

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 08 Feb 2015
Edward Lee, Martin Walker and Jessie Y. Zhu
University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester - Manchester Business School and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
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dividend payout regulation; agency cost; event study; earnings management; Chinese stock market

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Does the External Monitoring Effect of Financial Analysts Deter Corporate Fraud in China?

Journal of Business Ethics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 29 Jun 2011 Last Revised: 16 Mar 2014
Jiandong Chen, Douglas J. Cumming, Wenxuan Hou and Edward Lee
Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Florida Atlantic University, University of Edinburgh - Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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fraud triangle; corporate fraud; agency problem; analyst coverage; China

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Regional Institutions, Financial Analysts and Stock Price Informativeness

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Regional Institutions, Financial Analysts and Stock Price Informativeness

Regional Studies, 2017 forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 21 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2017
Rong Ding, Wenxuan Hou, Jing-Ming Kuo and Edward Lee
University of Warwick, University of Edinburgh - Business School, University of Birmingham - Birmingham Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Analyst; China; Legal Institutions; Stock Informativeness

Regional Institutions, Financial Analysts and Stock Price Informativeness

Regional Studies, 2017 Forthcoming
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 06 Aug 2014 Last Revised: 22 Aug 2017
Rong Ding, Wenxuan Hou, Jing-Ming Kuo and Edward Lee
University of Warwick, University of Edinburgh - Business School, University of Birmingham - Birmingham Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Analyst; China; Legal Institutions; Stock Informativeness

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Executive Compensation and the Split Share Structure Reform in China

The European Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 18 May 2012 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2013
Wenxuan Hou, Edward Lee, Konstantinos Stathopoulos and Zhenxu Tong
University of Edinburgh - Business School, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School and University of Exeter
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Executive compensation, Split Share Structure Reform, State Ownership, China

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Did Regulation Fair Disclosure, SOX, and Other Analyst Regulations Reduce Security Mispricing?

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Did Regulation Fair Disclosure, SOX, and Other Analyst Regulations Reduce Security Mispricing?

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 01 Jul 2012 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2014
Edward Lee, Norman C. Strong and Zhenmei (Judy) Zhu
University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School and Fudan University - School of Management
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Disclosure regulations, Analyst regulations, Information uncertainty, Stock returns

Did Regulation Fair Disclosure, Sox, and Other Analyst Regulations Reduce Security Mispricing?

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 52, No. 3, 2014
Posted: 11 Sep 2014
Edward Lee, Norman C. Strong and Zhenmei (Judy) Zhu
University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School and Fudan University - School of Management

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Disclosure regulations, Analyst regulations, Information uncertainty, Stock returns

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Business Ethics and Finance in Greater China: A Synthesis and Future Directions in Sustainability, CSR, and Fraud

Journal of Business Ethics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 02 Aug 2016
Douglas J. Cumming, Wenxuan Hou and Edward Lee
Florida Atlantic University, University of Edinburgh - Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Business Ethics and Finance, China, Environment, CSR, Governance, Fraud

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Fund Ownership and Stock Price Informativeness of Chinese Listed Firms

Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 08 Dec 2012
Rong Ding, Wenxuan Hou, Jing-Ming Kuo and Edward Lee
University of Warwick, University of Edinburgh - Business School, University of Birmingham - Birmingham Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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share price informativeness, mutual funds, state ownership, ownership structure, China

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Media Coverage and Foreign Share Discount Puzzle in China

European Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 25 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 20 Dec 2012
Douglas J. Cumming, Robert Dixon, Wenxuan Hou and Edward Lee
Florida Atlantic University, Durham Business School, University of Edinburgh - Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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media coverage, foreign share discount, China

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The Impact of State Ownership on Share Price Informativeness: The Case of the Split Share Structure Reform in China

British Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48 Posted: 22 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2012
Wenxuan Hou, Jing-Ming Kuo and Edward Lee
University of Edinburgh - Business School, University of Birmingham - Birmingham Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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State ownership, Share price informativeness, Split Share Structure Reform, China

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Who Benefits from IFRS Convergence in China?

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Who Benefits from IFRS Convergence in China?

Rotman School of Management Working Paper No. 2990919
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Jun 2017
Chao Chen, Edward Lee, Gerald J. Lobo and Jessie Zhu
Fudan University, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
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International Financial Reporting Standards, Convergence, Market reaction, Value relevance, Capital demand

Who Benefits from IFRS Convergence in China?

Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance Volume34, Issue 1, pp. 99-124, 2019
Posted: 30 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 05 Jul 2019
Chao Chen, Edward Lee, Gerald J. Lobo and Jessie Y. Zhu
Fudan University, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

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International Financial Reporting Standards; Convergence; Market Reaction; Value Relevance; Capital Demand

Who Benefits from IFRS Convergence in China?

Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance Volume 34, Issue1, pp. 99-124, 2018
Posted: 30 Jun 2019
Chao Chen, Edward Lee, Gerald J. Lobo and Jessie Zhu
Fudan University, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

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International Financial Reporting Standards; Convergence; Market reaction; Value relevance; Capital demand

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The Role of Mutual Funds in Deterring Corporate Fraud in China

ENTREPRENEURSHIP, GOVERNANCE AND ETHICS, Cumming, D., C., Mallin and R., Cressy, eds., Springer, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 03 Jan 2012 Last Revised: 23 Jan 2012
Wenxuan Hou, Edward Lee and Konstantinos Stathopoulos
University of Edinburgh - Business School, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School and The University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Fund, Fund Ownership, Fraud, Integrity, Ethics, China

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Does Chinese State Control Facilitate Relative Performance Evaluation?

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 19 Sep 2012
Edward Lee, Martin Walker and Jessie Y. Zhu
University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Manchester - Manchester Business School and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management
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relative performance evaluation, executive compensation, Chinese state-owned enterprises, state control

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Chinese Capital Markets: Institutional Reforms and Growing Global Links

European Journal of Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 09 Jun 2017
Douglas J. Cumming, Alessandra Guariglia, Wenxuan Hou and Edward Lee
Florida Atlantic University, University of Birmingham - Department of Economics, University of Edinburgh - Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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China, Chinese capital market, Institutional reforms

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Understanding How the Effects of Conditional Conservatism Measurement Bias Vary with the Research Context

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 10 Jul 2019
Mostafa Harakeh, Edward Lee and Martin Walker
Lebanese American University, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School and University of Manchester - Manchester Business School
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conditional conservatism, asymmetric timeliness, measurement bias, Type 1 error

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Effects of Heterogeneity on Measuring Efficiency Scores: The Case of China's Banking Sector

in Experiences and Challenges in the Development of the Chinese Capital Market, edited by Douglas Cumming, Alessandra Guariglia, Wenxuan Hou, Edward Lee Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 28 Apr 2015
Yizhe Dong, Douglas J. Cumming, Alessandra Guariglia, Wenxuan Hou and Edward Lee
University of Edinburgh Business School, Florida Atlantic University, University of Birmingham - Department of Economics, University of Edinburgh - Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Cost efficiency; Stochastic frontier analysis; Heterogeneity; Chinese banking

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UK Evidence on the Characteristics versus Covariance Debate

European Financial Management, Vol. 13, No. 4, pp. 742-756, September 2007
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 15 Aug 2007
Weimin Liu, Edward Lee and Norman C. Strong
Nottingham University Business School, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School and University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School
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Corporate Sell-Offs in the UK: Use of Proceeds, Financial Distress and Long-Run Impact on Shareholder Wealth

European Financial Management, Vol. 14, Issue 2, pp. 222-242, March 2008
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 12 Mar 2008
Edward Lee and Steve W. J. Lin
University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School and Florida International University (FIU) - School of Accounting
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Collusive versus Coercive Corporate Corruption: Evidence from Demand-Side Shocks and Supply-Side Disclosures

Posted: 24 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2019
Jeong-Bon Kim, Edward Lee, Xiaojian Tang and Junsheng Zhang
City University of Hong Kong, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Business School, Sun Yat-sen University

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corporate corruption; anti-corruption campaign; corporate disclosure; market reactions

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The Differential Impact of IFRS Adoption on Aspects of Seasoned Equity Offerings in the UK and France

Accounting in Europe, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2019.
Posted: 24 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2019
Mostafa Harakeh, Edward Lee and Martin Walker
Lebanese American University, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School and University of Manchester - Manchester Business School

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IFRS, Information Asymmetry, Earnings Management, Seasoned Equity Offerings, Equity Financing

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The Effect of Information Shocks on Dividend Payout and Dividend Value Relevance

International Review of Financial Analysis, Vol. 61, No. 1, 2019
Posted: 24 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 16 Dec 2019
Mostafa Harakeh, Edward Lee and Martin Walker
Lebanese American University, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School and University of Manchester - Manchester Business School

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Information Shocks, Information Asymmetry, IFRS, Dividend Payout, Dividend Value Relevance

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Unintended Consequences of Economic Interventionism on Accounting Conservatism: A Natural Experiment

Posted: 14 Nov 2018
Edward Lee, Kemin Wang, Qiong Wang and Xin Zhang
University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, Fudan University - School of Management, Fudan University, School of Management, Fudan University, School of Management, Students and Fudan University - School of Management

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industrial policies; political economy; accounting conservatism; financial reporting incentives; China’s Five-Year Plan

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Is the Mispricing of Bank Earnings Related to Financial Regulation Uncertainty?

Posted: 09 Nov 2018 Last Revised: 16 May 2019
Tuan Quoc Ho, Edward Lee, Gerald J. Lobo and Zhenmei (Judy) Zhu
University of Bristol - School of Economics, Finance and Management, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, University of Houston - C.T. Bauer College of Business and Fudan University - School of Management

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Financial regulation uncertainty; market information efficiency; bank post-earnings-announcement drift; investor opinion divergence; rational attention

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Bequest Motive, Information Transparency, and Family Firm Value: A Natural Experiment

Posted: 27 Jun 2017
Haijie Huang, Edward Lee, Lyu Changjiang and Yiyi Zhao
East China Normal University (ECNU) - Department of Accounting, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School, Fudan University - School of Management and University of International Business and Economics (UIBE)

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family firm governance, China’s one-child policy reform, information transparency

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Does Firm-Specific Stock Price Crash Risk Lead to a Stimulation or Distortion of Market Information Efficiency?

Posted: 18 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 24 Jan 2019
Jeong-Bon Kim, Edward Lee and Zhenmei (Judy) Zhu
City University of Hong Kong, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School and Fudan University - School of Management

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stock price crash risk, future earnings response coefficient, security mispricing, market information efficiency

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Bank Accounting Conservatism and Bank Loan Pricing

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Vol. 32, No. 5, 2013
Posted: 04 Mar 2015
Chu Yeong Lim, Martin Walker, Edward Lee and Asad Kausar
Singapore Management University - School of Accountancy, University of Manchester - Manchester Business School, University of Manchester - Alliance Manchester Business School and American University - Kogod School of Business

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bank accounting, conservatism