Bei Qin
Biographic Data
| ID | 1137423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bei Qin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bei |
| FAMILY NAME | Qin |
| SIGNATURE | QIN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bei Qin is Assistant Professor at the School of Economics and Finance, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5817-1169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 54 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
How did the 2012 anti‐corruption campaign in China diminish the value of political connections for listed companies
Measuring time‐varying policy intensity as the proportion of relevant newspaper articles, we study how the Chinese government's 2012 anti‐corruption campaign affected listed companies from 2012 to 2014. We find that the campaign's first two years decreased the market value of politically connected companies by 7.5%, which is equivalent to 80–83% of the benefit brought by these connections. These impacts were driven mainly by non‐government‐owned …
International Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative
Media Bias in China
This paper examines whether and how market competition affected the political bias of government-owned newspapers in China from 1981 to 2011. We measure media bias based on coverage of government mouthpiece content ( propaganda) relative to commercial content. We first find that a reform that forced newspaper exits (reduced competition) affected media bias by increasing product specialization, with some papers focusing on propaganda and others on…
Why Does China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda
In this paper, we document basic facts regarding public debates about controversial political issues on Chinese social media. Our documentation is based on a dataset of 13.2 billion blog posts published on Sina Weibo-the most prominent Chinese microblogging platform-during the 2009-2013 period. Our primary finding is that a shockingly large number of posts on highly sensitive topics were published and circulated on social media. For instance, we …
Say-on-Pay Votes
We investigate the association between the media coverage of firms’ CEO pay packages and subsequent shareholder voting on say-on-pay resolutions, and find that negative media coverage is able to predict shareholder discontent over say on pay. When we divide media coverage into coverage in the financial and business press versus coverage in the general press, we find that shareholder voting on say-on-pay resolutions is mainly associated with the a…
Why Does China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda
In this paper, we document basic facts regarding public debates about controversial political issues on Chinese social media. Our documentation is based on a dataset of 13.2 billion blog posts published on Sina Weibo-the most prominent Chinese microblogging platform-during the 2009-2013 period. Our primary finding is that a shockingly large number of posts on highly sensitive topics were published and circulated on social media. For instance, we …
Say-on-Pay Votes
We investigate the association between the media coverage of firms’ CEO pay packages and subsequent shareholder voting on say-on-pay resolutions, and find that negative media coverage is able to predict shareholder discontent over say on pay. When we divide media coverage into coverage in the financial and business press versus coverage in the general press, we find that shareholder voting on say-on-pay resolutions is mainly associated with the a…
Why Does China Allow Freer Social Media? Protests versus Surveillance and Propaganda
In this paper, we document basic facts regarding public debates about controversial political issues on Chinese social media. Our documentation is based on a dataset of 13.2 billion blog posts published on Sina Weibo-the most prominent Chinese microblogging platform-during the 2009-2013 period. Our primary finding is that a shockingly large number of posts on highly sensitive topics were published and circulated on social media. For instance, we …
Media Bias in China
This paper examines whether and how market competition affected the political bias of government-owned newspapers in China from 1981 to 2011. We measure media bias based on coverage of government mouthpiece content ( propaganda) relative to commercial content. We first find that a reform that forced newspaper exits (reduced competition) affected media bias by increasing product specialization, with some papers focusing on propaganda and others on…
International Perspectives on the Belt and Road Initiative
How did the 2012 anti‐corruption campaign in China diminish the value of political connections for listed companies
Measuring time‐varying policy intensity as the proportion of relevant newspaper articles, we study how the Chinese government's 2012 anti‐corruption campaign affected listed companies from 2012 to 2014. We find that the campaign's first two years decreased the market value of politically connected companies by 7.5%, which is equivalent to 80–83% of the benefit brought by these connections. These impacts were driven mainly by non‐government‐owned …
Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Business (3 works) · China (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Government (linguistics) (2 works) · Language change (2 works) · Media Influence and Politics (2 works) · Media studies (2 works)