Change of Control and the Success of China's Share Issue Privatization

35 Pages Posted: 19 Dec 2006

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Peter L. Rousseau

Vanderbilt University - Department of Economics

Sheng Xiao

Westminster College (Utah)

Date Written: June 2007

Abstract

Using two newly available datasets of listed firms covering the period from 1994 to 2003, we test if share-issue privatization, defined here as the change of corporate control from the State to private owners rather than the IPO event as in earlier studies, improved firm performance in China. To illustrate how privatization may have worked, we develop a sequential model of interaction between the government and firm managers in which optimal ownership shares emerge in equilibrium. Our econometric analysis then shows that, in keeping with the model, privatization did improve firm profitability and the productivity of labor.

Keywords: state owned enterprises, profitability, event study

JEL Classification: G1, G3

Suggested Citation

Rousseau, Peter L. and Xiao, Sheng, Change of Control and the Success of China's Share Issue Privatization (June 2007). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=952531 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.952531

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Sheng Xiao

Westminster College (Utah) ( email )

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