Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of private benefits of control on minority shareholders. Design/methodology/approach: A theoretical model is established. The empirical analysis includes hand-collected data from a wide range of data sources. OLS and 2SLS regression...

China’s STAR market (Shanghai Stock Exchange Science and Technology Innovation Board) is its newest stock market, which was officially launched in June 2019, and whose index was released in July 2020. It has attracted extensive attention from market players, but almost no coverage from...