Does media governance restrict corporate overinvestment behavior? Evidence from Chinese listed firms

Using China’s A-share listed firms from 2007 to 2011, this paper empirically tests how media governance affects firms’ levels of overinvestment and whether external supervision and informal institutional mechanisms reduce these levels. We find that media governance and overinvestment are significant...

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Main Authors: Huili Zhang, Zengrui Su
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-03-01
Series:China Journal of Accounting Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755309114000355