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Overview

Yan-Leung Cheung is affiliated with the Education University of Hong Kong in China. Their research primarily centers on the field of Business, Management and Accounting, with a particular emphasis on Accounting, Strategy and Management, Information Systems, Demography, and Economics and Econometrics as subfields.

The main topics addressed in their work include Corporate Finance and Governance, Auditing, Earnings Management, Governance, Economic Growth and Development, Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis, Retirement, Disability, and Employment, Working Capital and Financial Performance, and International Business and Foreign Direct Investment.

Cheung has contributed to multiple academic venues, frequently publishing in the SSRN Electronic Journal, as well as in the Journal of Operations Management, Journal of Banking & Finance, International Review of Financial Analysis, and Journal of Corporate Finance.

  • Common institutional investors and supplier performance in supply chains, 2020, Journal of Operations Management
  • Where do banks value corporate social responsibility more? Evidence on the role of national culture, 2020, Journal of Banking & Finance
  • Impact of financial investment on confidence in a happy future retirement, 2023, International Review of Financial Analysis
  • Does the market understand the ex ante risk of expropriation by controlling shareholders?, 2021, Journal of Corporate Finance
  • What Determines the Return to Bribery? Evidence from Corruption Cases Worldwide, 2020, Management Science

Frequent collaborators of Yan-Leung Cheung include Weiqiang Tan, Billy S.C. Mak, Hao Shu, Wei-Qiang Tan, and P. Raghavendra Rau, indicating a collaborative approach across several related research topics.

Best Publications

  • Tunneling, propping, and expropriation: Evidence from connected party transactions in Hong Kong

    Yan Leung Stephen Cheung;P. Raghavendra Rau;Aris Stouraitis

  • Ownership concentration, firm performance, and dividend policy in Hong Kong

    Zhilan Chen;Yan-Leung Cheung;Aris Stouraitis;Anita W.S. Wong

  • Privatization and Risk Sharing: Evidence from the Split Share Structure Reform in China

    Kai Li;Tan Wang;Yan-Leung Cheung;Ping Jiang

  • The Signaling Effect of Corporate Social Responsibility in Emerging Economies

    Weichieh Su;Mike W. Peng;Weiqiang Tan;Yan Leung Cheung

  • Tunneling and propping up: An analysis of related party transactions by Chinese listed companies

    Yan-Leung Cheung;Lihua Jing;Tong Lu;P. Raghavendra Rau

  • The international transmission of stock market fluctuation between the developed markets and the Asian—Pacific markets

    Yan-Leung Cheung;Sui-choi Mak

  • A transparency Disclosure Index measuring disclosures: Chinese listed companies

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  • Do Investors Really Value Corporate Governance? Evidence from the Hong Kong Market

    Yan-Leung Cheung;J. Thomas Connelly;Piman Limpaphayom;Lynda Zhou

  • What moves the gold market

    Jun Cai;Yan-Leung Cheung;Michael C. S. Wong

  • Does Corporate Social Responsibility Matter in Asian Emerging Markets?

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  • Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? Central vs. Local Government Shareholders in Chinese Listed Firms

    Yan Leung Stephen Cheung;P. Raghavendra Rau;Aris Stouraitis

  • Tunneling, Propping, and Expropriation: Evidence from Connected Party Transactions in Hong Kong

    Stephen Yan-Leung Cheung;P. Raghavendra Rau;Aris Stouraitis

  • “Buy High, Sell Low: How Listed Firms Price Asset Transfers in Related Party Transactions”

    Yan-Leung Cheung;Yuehua Qi;P. Raghavendra Rau;Aris Stouraitis

  • Interdependence of Asian Emerging Equity Markets

    Bill Wan-Sing Hung;Yan-Leung Cheung

  • ‘Once-in-a-generation’ yen volatility in 1998: fundamentals, intervention, and order flow

    Jun Cai;Yan-Leung Cheung;Raymond S.K. Lee;Michael Melvin

  • Ownership Concentration and Executive Compensation in Closely Held Firms: Evidence from Hong Kong

    Yan Leung Cheung;Aris Stouraitis;Anita W.S. Wong

  • How much do firms pay as bribes and what benefits do they get? Evidence from corruption cases worldwide

    Yan Leung Cheung;Raghavendra Rau;Aris Stouraitis

  • How regulatory changes affect IPO underpricing in China

    Yan-leung Cheung;Zhiwei Ouyang;Weiqiang Tan

  • Corporate Governance in China: a Step Forward

    Yan-Leung Cheung;Ping Jiang;Piman Limpaphayom;Tong Lu

  • Does corporate governance matter in China

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  • The intraday patterns of the spread and depth in a market without market makers: The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong

    Hee-Joon Ahn;Yan-Leung Cheung

  • Seasonal pattern in volatility in Asian stock markets

    Richard Yan-Ki Ho;Yan-Leung Cheung

  • Being Good When Being International in an Emerging Economy: The Case of China

    Yan Leung Stephen Cheung;Dongmin Kong;Weiqiang Tan;Wenming Wang

  • The pricing of risky assets in two emerging Asian markets—Korea and Taiwan

    Yan-Leung Cheung;Kie-Ann Wong;Yan-Ki Ho

  • The Intertemporal Stability of the Relationships Between the Asian Emerging Equity Markets and the Developed Equity Markets

    Yan‐Leung Cheung;Yan‐Ki Ho

  • Price Clustering on the Limit-Order Book: Evidence from the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong

    Hee-Joon Ahn;Jun Cai;Yan Leung Cheung

Frequent Co-Authors

P. Raghavendra Rau
P. Raghavendra Rau University of Cambridge
Kai Li
Kai Li Zhengzhou University
Peter F. Pope
Peter F. Pope Bocconi University
Michael Melvin
Michael Melvin University of California, San Diego

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