Gary Gang Tian

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated and examined the effect of capital structure on Jordanian corporate performance using a panel data sample representing of 167 Jordanian companies during 1989-2003 and found that a firm's capital structure had a significantly negative impact on the firm's performance measures, in both the accounting and market's measures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the effect of the capital structure on the performance of Jordanian companies and found that the short-term debt to total assets (STDTA) level has a significantly positive effect on the market performance measure (Tobin's Q).

TL;DR: This paper examined the effect of excess control rights on the leverage decisions made by Chinese non-SOEs before and after the non-tradable share reform (NTS) and found that firms with control rights have more excess leverage and their controlling shareholders use the resources for tunneling rather than investing in positive NPV projects.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of ownership structure on firm performance and the default risk of a sample of 59 publicly listed firms in Jordan from 1989 to 2002 and found that government ownership is significantly negatively related to the firm's performance ROE.

TL;DR: In this paper, the ousting of corrupt politicians and firms connected with them through bribery and personal relationships (event firms) was studied, and it was found that investment expenditure of event firms declines significantly after ousting the politicians compared with that of non-event firms.