Shareholding structure and corporate performance of partially privatized firms: Evidence from listed Chinese companies

Pacific Basin Finance Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 587-610

  Qi, Daqing ^a   Wu, Woody ^a   Zhang, Hua ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Chinese equity market; Corporate performance; G3; G32; Ownership structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 0011019614     PISSN: 0927538X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0927-538x(00)00013-5     Document Type: Article

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