Ownership concentration, foreign shareholding, audit quality, and stock price synchronicity: Evidence from China

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 95, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 425-442

  Gul, Ferdinand A ^a   Kim, Jeong Bon ^b   Qiu, Annie A ^c  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^c China CITIC Securities Co Ltd   (China)

Author keywords

Audit quality; China; Foreign ownership; Ownership concentration; State ownership; Stock price synchronicity

Indexed keywords

EID: 75149138656     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2009.11.005     Document Type: Article

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