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Employing the news-based economic policy uncertainty (EPU) Index of Baker, Bloom, and Davis (2016) and quarterly data of Chinese listed companies, we find that an increase in EPU raises the average debt-to-asset ratio of state-owned enterprises (SOEs) but lowers that of private-owned enterprises...
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conduct a natural experiment that avoids endogeneity, we identify 23 corruption scandals involving high-level government … bureaucrats in China and a set of publicly traded companies whose senior managers bribed bureaucrats or were connected with … persist even if we only focus on the connected firms that were not directly involved in the corruption cases. The relative …
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This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People's Republic of China. After …
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characterizes China's state sector. The model demonstrates the nature of the bargain between the principals (i.e., officials from … China's State Asset Council) and the agents (large-SOE managers). We derive an indifference payoff point, which maximizes … party in the game. This condition helps to explain the inability of China's political economy system to privatize …
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zones, and land parcels purchased by SOEs lead to positive stock market performance. We also show that an anti-corruption …
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China's large state-owned enterprises in the past decades. We come up with the views that there are 3 types of incentives … that lead to the expansion of asset size of large SOEs in China. First, the SOE manager is interested in maximizing her …
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The Public Institution Reform of China in 2011 effectively downsized public institutions, which is an important …
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This paper examines the progress of state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform in the People's Republic of China. After …
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The government of China started its anti-corruption campaign in December 2012. Since then, more than 600 government …
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This paper adopts a political approach to analyze the relationship between the state and state-owned business in China … discuss their implications for future SOE reform in China. It argues that SOE reform is part of the CCP's effort to rebuild …
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