We compare the sensitivity of managerial cash compensation to firm performance, the level of long term managerial incentives, and the sensitivity of CEO turnover to firm performance for three types of state-controlled Chinese firms: A shares (firms incorporated and listed in mainland China), H...

We examine whether the corporate control market is an important governance mechanism that the controlling shareholders of publicly listed Chinese SOEs employ to improve the performance of less efficiently run Chinese SOEs. Using an econometric methodology advocated by Maddala (1983), we show...