Artikel
Government ownership and the capital structure of firms: Analysis of an institutional context from China
Emerging economies provide interesting scenarios for examining how institutional context influences the financing behavior of firms. In this study, we examine the capital structure of Chinese listed firms following the Split-Share Structure Reform of 2005. This reform allowed a reduction of government ownership by making government shares tradable. We find that the impact of government ownership on leverage is dependent on whether the government is the largest shareholder in a firm and whether the government ownership is through a parent state-owned enterprise. In addition, we document that the largest non-government shareholder positively influences leverage. Overall, our results reveal that the largest controlling shareholder, either government or non-government, has a significant impact on the capital structure of Chinese firms.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Journal: China Journal of Accounting Research ; ISSN: 1755-3091 ; Volume: 11 ; Year: 2018 ; Issue: 3 ; Pages: 171-185 ; Amsterdam: Elsevier
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Management
- Subject
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Capital structure
Leverage
Ownership
Government ownership
China
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Huang, Xiaohong
Kabir, Rezaul
Zhang, Lingling
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Veröffentlichung
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Elsevier
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Amsterdam
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2018
- DOI
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doi:10.1016/j.cjar.2018.07.001
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET
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Object type
- Artikel
Associated
- Huang, Xiaohong
- Kabir, Rezaul
- Zhang, Lingling
- Elsevier
Time of origin
- 2018