Privatization Through an Overseas Listing: Evidence from China’s H-Share Firms
We study the partial privatization of 53 Chinese state-owned enterprises (by their listings on the Hong Kong Exchange over the period July 1993 to December 2002. We find that listing has led to a median increase of 70% in real net profits, 80% in real sales, 50% in capital spending, and a mild but nonsignificant improvement in coverage ratios, but no improvement in return on sales and a significant underperformance of returns against several market index benchmarks. Further investigation shows that firm performance is negatively related to state ownership, but positively related to legal-personal ownership and foreign ownership.
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2005
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Authors: | Jia, Jin ; Sun, Qian ; Tong, Wilson H.S. |
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Financial Management. - Financial Management Association - FMA. - Vol. 34.2005, 3
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Financial Management Association - FMA |
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