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Do types of political connection affect firm performance differently?
Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2018This study investigates how four types of politically connected firms (PCON); namely, government-linked companies, board of directors, businessman, and family members, affect firm performance.
Wai-Yan Wong, C. Hooy
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Journal of Empirical Finance, 2020
We investigate the impact of political connection on corporate risk-taking by connected firms, their industry counterparts, as well as non-rival firms from 48 countries. We find that political connection induces higher risk taking by connected firms.
Isaac Otchere, Lemma W. Senbet, P. Zhu
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We investigate the impact of political connection on corporate risk-taking by connected firms, their industry counterparts, as well as non-rival firms from 48 countries. We find that political connection induces higher risk taking by connected firms.
Isaac Otchere, Lemma W. Senbet, P. Zhu
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CEO media exposure, political connection and Chinese firms' stock price synchronicity
International Review of Economics and Finance, 2019This paper investigates the impact of CEO media exposure and CEO political connection on stock price synchronicity using weekly data of Chinese firms from 2007 to 2016.
Xiaoqing Li, Penghua Qiao, Lin Zhao
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Politically Connected Firms and the Environment
The B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics, 2020Abstract This paper examines the environmental effect of political connections at the individual and organizational levels. We integrate political connections at both levels in a four-stage game-theoretic framework to study the political interplay between an entrepreneur, a bureaucrat and a government.
Haowei Yu, Lin Zhang
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Political connection and the walking dead: Evidence from China's privately owned firms
International Review of Economics and Finance, 2020Using a sample of privately owned listed firms in China, we document that firms’ political connections have a positive effect on their likelihood of becoming insolvent and inefficient (which we call zombies or zombie firms).
Qing He, Xiaoyang Li, Wenyu Zhu
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Corporate political connections
2019This thesis primarily aims to examine the impact of political connections on firms. Hence, three independent research projects have been undertaken. The first and the second research projects explore the effect of different approaches to political connections during a volatile period of emerging democracy.
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Politically Connected Polluters Under Smog
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2013I conduct an event study of an exogenous pollution shock-smog in the winter of 2013 to examine how the market values of firms in polluting industries and environmental protecting industries, respectively, responded in “the world's worst polluter”: China.
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Media/politics connections: beyond political parallelism
Media, Culture & Society, 2013Used by Seymour-Ure and by Blumler and Gurevitch the concept of “political parallelism” gained further prominence after Hallin and Mancini took it as one of their key variables in the comparison of media systems. The concept seems to work well for analyzing western societies, but how useful is it for dealing with the rest of the world?
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Corporate cash holdings and political connections
Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 2010We examine the relation between corporate liquidity and political connections measured via lobbying expenditures. This is an interesting question as many of the motives for holding cash should be diminished by political connections. Results suggest a significant and inverse relation between cash levels and lobby expenses and that the marginal value of ...
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, 2019
This paper investigates the effect of political connections on corporate environmental investment. Using the survey data gathered from Chinese private firms, we find that political connection is significantly positively associated with environmental ...
Xixiong Xu, Youliang Yan
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This paper investigates the effect of political connections on corporate environmental investment. Using the survey data gathered from Chinese private firms, we find that political connection is significantly positively associated with environmental ...
Xixiong Xu, Youliang Yan
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