Our research tests the difference in investment efficiency between state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private firms and then evaluates the effect of privatisation and equitisation policies on the investment efficiency of former state owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a novel dataset from Viet Nam...

The quality of China's capital markets cannot be improved without raising the quality of its listed companies. One problem with China's capital markets is that frequent scandals involving listed companies have created market uncertainty in the eyes of investors. This paper offers an explanation...

When public institutions do not support information disclosure and contract enforcement, controlling owners may compensate by setting up ownership networks that facilitate the exchange of resources and alignment of interests. We examine how firms' controlling owners draw power from ownership...

Drawing on a unique dataset we collected in 1998 and 2000, this article examines the determinants of privatization of township and village enterprises in China. Our theoretical model explicitly considers the role of banks in determining privatization. We find that improved human capital and...

Literatures of corporate governance claim that expropriation by controlling owner towards the listed firm emerges when separation of cash flow and control rights exist, and that the separation emerges when dual class shares or pyramiding corporate structures exist. In China, dual class share and...

Whether the bank-firm relationship and political connections are the substitutes, or the complements is the well-researched question on an empirical research level on credit availability. This paper studies the influences of the bank-firm relationship and political connection on firm's access to...

This study surveys the literature examining the privatization of state-owned enterprises(SOEs). We overview the history of privatization, the theoretical and empirical evidence on the relative performance of state owned and privately owned firms, the types of privatization, if and by how much...

The purpose of this paper is to construct a suitable model of corporate governance for China's listed companies that were formerly state-owned enterprises (ie listed SOEs). The paper first identifies the corporate governance problems in China's listed SOEs. It is then followed by an examination...

We construct and analyze a unique database with 1992-99 information on privatization transactions and labor productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permits us to describe the post-privatization ownership structure and...