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State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are present in key sectors of the economies around the world. While they can provide an important public service, there is widespread concern that their activities are negatively affected by corruption. However, there is limited cross-country analysis on the costs...
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We document that publicly listed Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are less productive and profitable than publicly listed firms in which the state has no ownership stake. In particular, Chinese listed SOEs are more capital intensive and have a lower average product of capital than...
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The paper analyses the effect of the stock market on firm innovation through the lens of initial public offering (IPO) using uniquely matched Chinese firm-level data. We find that IPOs lead to an increase in both the quantity and quality of firm innovation activity. In addition, IPOs expand a...
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carries risks. International experience suggests that China's credit growth is on a dangerous trajectory, with increasing … risks of a disruptive adjustment and/or a marked growth slowdown. Several China-specific factors-high savings, current …
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China and Hong Kong SAR during the subprime crisis. Using both univariate and multivariate GARCH models, this paper finds … that China''s stock market is not immune to the financial crisis, as evidenced by the price and volatility spillovers from … the United States than China''s returns, and past volatility shocks in the United States have a more persistent effect on …
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China weathered the global financial crisis better than most, thanks to a large and timely stimulus. This stimulus …
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This paper documents and assesses the risk stemming from rising corporate indebtedness in China using a firm …
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Using a newly-compiled dataset of state-owned enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa, we present aggregate information about profitability, liquidity and leverage. We find that 40 percent of the close to 300 surveyed SOEs are unprofitable, while larger firms also tend to be illiquid and...
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