This study examines the effect of corporate ownership on information asymmetry as measured by bid-ask spread in the emerging markets of China. Government ownership has significant and positive impacts on bid-ask spread during the period 1995–2000, but disappears afterward during 2001–2003....

In this paper, we examine the effect of corporate ownership on information asymmetry measured by bid-ask spread in the emerging markets of China. We find that government ownership has significant and positive impacts on bid-ask spread during the period of 1995-2000 which disappears afterward...