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56
Citations
13178
World Ranking
1007
National Ranking
626

Overview

Kam C. Chan is affiliated with Western Kentucky University in the United States. Their research spans several areas within business, management, accounting, economics, econometrics, and finance, contributing extensively to the academic community.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Business, Management and Accounting
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Within these fields, their work covers a range of subfields such as:

  • Accounting
  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Finance
  • Strategy and Management
  • Marketing

Significant research topics addressed in their publications focus on:

  • Corporate Finance and Governance
  • Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance
  • Corporate Taxation and Avoidance
  • Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting
  • Financial Markets and Investment Strategies
  • Banking stability, regulation, efficiency
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth

Kam C. Chan has published in a variety of journals, with frequent appearances in the following venues:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • International Review of Financial Analysis
  • Journal of Corporate Finance
  • Finance Research Letters
  • The North American Journal of Economics and Finance

The scientist's recent papers include:

  • CEO overconfidence and labor investment efficiency, 2020, The North American Journal of Economics and Finance
  • Social trust and internal control extensiveness: Evidence from China, 2022, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy
  • Does a green tax impact a heavy-polluting firm's green investments?, 2021, Applied Economics
  • Does air pollution affect a firm's cash holdings?, 2021, Pacific-Basin Finance Journal
  • Firm-level financialization: Contributing factors, sources, and economic consequences, 2022, International Review of Economics & Finance

The scientist has collaborated frequently with various co-authors throughout their career. Notable frequent co-authors include:

  • Jianhua Tan
  • Chao Yan
  • Baohua Liu
  • Nianhang Xu
  • Guanglong Zhang

Best Publications

  • Risk and Return on Real Estate: Evidence from Equity REITs

    K.C. Chan;Patric Hendershott;Anthony Sanders

  • Excess Perks and Stock Price Crash Risk: Evidence from China

    Nianhang Xu;Xiaorong Li;Qingbo Yuan;Kam C. Chan

  • Intellectual Foundations of Current Research in Family Business: An Identification and Review of 25 Influential Articles

    James J. Chrisman;Franz W. Kellermanns;Kam C. Chan;Kartono Liano

  • International Stock Market Efficiency and Integration: A Study of Eighteen Nations

    Kam C. Chan;Benton E. Gup;Ming-Shiun Pan

  • An Empirical Analysis of Stock Prices in Major Asian Markets and the United States

    Kam C. Chan;Benton E. Gup;Ming-Shiun Pan

  • An Unconditional Asset‐Pricing Test and the Role of Firm Size as an Instrumental Variable for Risk

    K. C. Chan;Nai-Fu Chen

  • Audit Committee and Firm Value: Evidence on Outside Top Executives as Expert-Independent Directors

    Kam C. Chan;Joanne Li

  • Earnings Management of Firms Reporting Material Internal Control Weaknesses under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act

    Kam C. Chan;Barbara Farrell;Picheng Lee

  • Political uncertainty and cash holdings: Evidence from China

    Nianhang Xu;Qinyuan Chen;Yan Xu;Kam C. Chan

  • Internal Control and Stock Price Crash Risk: Evidence from China

    Jun Chen;Kam C. Chan;Wang Dong;Feida (Frank) Zhang

  • Analyst coverage, optimism, and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China

    Nianhang Xu;Xuanyu Jiang;Kam C. Chan;Zhihong Yi

  • Credit ratings and IPO pricing

    Heng (Hunter) An;Kam C. Chan

  • Founder's political connections, second generation involvement, and family firm performance: Evidence from China

    Nianhang Xu;Qingbo Yuan;Xuanyu Jiang;Kam C. Chan

  • Do star analysts know more firm-specific information? Evidence from China

    Nianhang Xu;Kam C. Chan;Xuanyu Jiang;Zhihong Yi

  • Board hierarchy, independent directors, and firm value: Evidence from China

    Jigao Zhu;Kangtao Ye;Jennifer Wu Tucker;Kam (Johnny) C. Chan

  • Macroeconomic Influences and the Variability of the Commodity Futures Basis

    Warren Bailey;K. C. Chan

  • Ranking accounting journals using dissertation citation analysis: A research note

    Kam C. Chan;Gim S. Seow;Kinsun Tam

  • International mutual fund selectivity and market timing during up and down market conditions

    G. Wenchi Kao;Louis T. W. Cheng;Kam C. Chan

  • The association between stock returns and foreign GAAP earnings versus earnings adjusted to U.S. GAAP

    Kam C. Chan;Gim S. Seow

  • Social trust and stock price crash risk: Evidence from China

    Chunfang Cao;Changyuan Xia;Kam C. Chan

  • Asymmetric cash flow sensitivity of cash holdings

    Dichu Bao;Kam C. Chan;Weining Zhang

  • Social Trust and Corporate Misconduct: Evidence from China

    Wang Dong;Hongling Han;Yun Ke;Kam C. Chan

Frequent Co-Authors

Hung-Gay Fung
Hung-Gay Fung University of Missouri–St. Louis
Louis T. W. Cheng
Louis T. W. Cheng Hang Seng University of Hong Kong
Carl R. Chen
Carl R. Chen University of Dayton
Michael Firth
Michael Firth Lingnan University
Francis A. Longstaff
Francis A. Longstaff University of California, Los Angeles

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