Articles

Geopolitical risk and the cost of capital in emerging economies (with Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, Helen Wang). 2024 Emerging Markets Review 61, 101149.

National Legislatures and Corporate Transparency (with Ryan Chen, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami). 2024 Research in International Business and Finance, 102441.

• Best Paper Award Finalist in Emerging Markets Research at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting in 2019.

Political corporate social responsibility: The role of deliberative capacity (with Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami, Jane Lu, Helen Wang). 2022 Journal of International Business Studies 53 (8), 1766-1784.

• Best Paper Award in Emerging Economies Research at the Academy of International Business Meeting in 2018.

The dynamism of partially state-owned enterprises in East Asia (with Travers Child, Wai-Man Liu, Phong Ngo). 2021 Journal of Corporate Finance 68, 101951.

Board connections and crisis performance: Family, state, and political networks (with Travers Child and Xiang Li). 2020 Journal of Corporate Finance 64, 101630.

Varieties of hierarchical capitalism: family and state market economies in East Asia. 2016 The Pacific Review 29 (2), 137-163.

The stabilizing state: State capitalism as a response to financial globalization in one-party regimes. 2015 Review of International Political Economy 22 (4), 838-873.

What do changes in corporate ownership in Indonesia tell us? (with Natasha Hamilton-Hart). 2015 Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies 51 (1), 123-145.

Corporate governance and political impediments to regional harmonization: cases from East Asia. 2014 The Pacific Review 27 (5), 585-610.

Changes to the ownership and control of East Asian corporations between 1996 and 2008: The primacy of politics.(with Travers Child) 2013 Journal of Financial Economics 107 (2), 494-513.

• Access the corporate ownership dataset created for the paper here

• Summary version published in Finance and Accounting Memos (FAMe), a review publication of selected articles from top finance journals published by the Anderson School of Management, UCLA.

The domestic political origins of global financial standards: The agrarian roots of American securities regulations. 2011 Business and Politics 13 (3), 1-39.

• Selected for the best paper proceedings at the Academy of International Business Meeting, 2008

Partisan politics and institutional (re) creation: locating and explaining the origins of modern finance capitalism. 2010 West European Politics 33 (6), 1187-1213.

Institutional (dis) incentives to innovate: an explanation for Singapore's innovation gap. (with Loh Yi Zheng) 2009. Journal of East Asian Studies 9 (2), 291-319.

• Commentary version published in The Straits Times newspaper (Singapore), April 30, 2008.

Chinese capitalism in the OECD mirror. 2009 New Political Economy 14 (1), 71-99.

Varieties of capitalism in France: interests, institutions, and finance. 2006 French Politics 4 (1), 1-30.

• • • Selected by the editors as one of the journal’s best articles since it was founded

Corporate governance and firm financing: The role of politics. 2004 Corporate Ownership & Control 2 (1), 50-59.

State Capitalism in East Asia (with Krislert Samphantharak). 2022 in The Oxford Handbook of State Capitalism and the Firm, Mike Wright (ed.), Geoffrey T. Wood (ed.), Alvaro Cuervo-Cazurra (ed.), Pei Sun (ed.), Ilya Okhmatovskiy (ed.), Anna Grosman (ed.). New York, NY: Oxford University Press, pp. 679-696.

What Drives Regional Innovation Capacity Build-Up in China? (with Xiaohua Yang, Ying Zhou, and Roger Chen) 2021 in Business Practices, Growth and Economic Policy in Emerging Markets, Luis Camacho (ed.) and Satyendra Singh (ed.). World Scientific, pp. 89-113.

Corporate Governance in Asia (with Krislert Samphantharak) 2019 in Asian Business and Management (3rd Edition): Theory, Practice and Perspectives, Harukiyo Hasegawa (ed.) and Michael A. Witt (ed.), Bloomsbury.

Business–Government Relations and Corporate Governance Reforms 2018 in Business, Government and Economic Institutions in China, Xiaoke Zhang (ed.) and Tianbiao Zhu (ed.), Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 225-253.

The Role of the State in Asian Business Systems (with Michael A. Witt) 2014 in The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems, Gordon Redding (ed.) and Micael A. Witt (ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 538-560

Singapore: open state-led capitalism. 2014 in The Oxford Handbook of Asian Business Systems, Gordon Redding (ed.) and Micael A. Witt (ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 192-215.

Political hierarchy and finance: The politics of China’s financial development. 2012 in East Asian capitalism: Diversity, Continuity, and Change, Andrew Walter (ed.) and Xiaoke Zhang (ed.), Oxford University Press, pp. 158-178.

Introduction. 2009 In Lessons from the Asian Financial Crisis, Richard Carney (ed.), New York & London: Routledge. 

The rise of foreign state ownership in East Asia: Domestic political determinants and stabilizing effects. 2015 Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) Paper No. WP060/2015.

Financial regulatory harmonization in East Asia: Balancing domestic and international pressures for corporate governance reforms. 2011 Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) Working paper No. 269.

How Geography Makes Democracy Work. 2009 RSIS Working Paper, No. 190.

Contested capitalism: financial politics and implications for China. 2007 RSIS Working Paper, No. 127.

Deducing Varieties of Capitalism. 2007 MPRA Working Paper Series, No. 5145.

National Security and National Finance: Locating the Origins of Modern Financial Capitalism. 2004 EUI Working Papers RSCAS No. 2004/21.

The Political Economy of Financial Systems. 2001 Social Science Research Network. 

China’s State Enterprises: Changing Role in a Rapidly Transforming Economy: Ran Li and Kee Cheok Cheong (Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019). 2020 Journal of Contemporary Asia 50 (3), 484-487.

Growth of autocracies will expand Chinese global influence via Belt and Road Initiative as it enters second decade. December 2023 The Conversation.

Autocracies that look like democracies are a threat across the globe. January 2019 The Conversation.

G20: hopes and realities. 2010 RSIS Commentaries, No. 177. Singapore, Nanyang Technological University.

G20 Summit: the need to regulate short-termism. 2010 RSIS Commentaries, No. 64. Singapore, Nanyang Technological University.

Fostering Entrepreneurial Activity in Singapore: Clash in Innovation Incentives. (with Loh Yi Zheng). April 30 2008 Straits Times, p. 27.

Regional financial integration: when leadership is needed. 2007 RSIS Commentaries, No. 122. Singapore, Nanyang Technological University.

From hegemony to loose bipolarity: the evolving geopolitics of the US, EU and China. (with Richard A. Bitzinger). 2007 RSIS Commentaries, No. 5. Singapore, Nanyang Technological University.

Mideast conflict-a silver lining: mixed economic impact likely. 2006 RSIS Commentaries, No. 334. Singapore, Nanyang Technological University.

Ignoring doctor's orders: political impediments to China's financial liberalization. 2006 RSIS Commentaries, No. 135. Singapore, Nanyang Technological University.

Ties that bind?: Asian and European financial integration compared. 2006 RSIS Commentaries, No. 101. Singapore, Nanyang Technological University.