China's secondary privatization: Perspectives from the Split-Share Structure Reform

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 113, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 500-518

  Liao, Li ^a   Liu, Bibo ^a   Wang, Hao ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Tsinghua University   (China)

Author keywords

Financial reform; Market mechanism; Privatization; State owned enterprise; The Split Share Structure Reform

Indexed keywords

EID: 84904873099     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2014.05.007     Document Type: Article

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