Residual state ownership and stock market integration: evidence from Chinese partly privatised firms

This paper assesses China’s integration with the global stock market over its privatisation process, by examining the asset pricing mechanisms of Chinese firms under different levels of state ownership within a two-beta CAPM framework. We derive time-varying national and global systematic risks for...

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Main Author: Li, Hong
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2018
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description This paper assesses China’s integration with the global stock market over its privatisation process, by examining the asset pricing mechanisms of Chinese firms under different levels of state ownership within a two-beta CAPM framework. We derive time-varying national and global systematic risks for the portfolios compiled on the basis of residual state ownership and examine how these risks are priced while controlling for structural changes exogenously and endogenously. Through anchoring our analysis to the portfolios capturing this institutional factor, we observe mostly positive pricing of the systematic risks, instead of the negative pricing often found in the literature on emerging markets. Within this well-controlled framework, some interesting points emerge. While full privatisation does not eliminate exposure to the national systematic risk, more heavily privatised firms (i.e., those with the least residual state ownership) tend to price only the global risk more often than less privatised ones. Hence, among partly-privatised firms, integration with the global market strengthens as state ownership decreases. These results suggest that emerging economies pursue rigorous privatisation and yet governments keep small stakes in privatised firms in order to ensure integration with the global market.
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spelling nottingham-437912019-05-31T04:30:12Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43791/ Residual state ownership and stock market integration: evidence from Chinese partly privatised firms Li, Hong This paper assesses China’s integration with the global stock market over its privatisation process, by examining the asset pricing mechanisms of Chinese firms under different levels of state ownership within a two-beta CAPM framework. We derive time-varying national and global systematic risks for the portfolios compiled on the basis of residual state ownership and examine how these risks are priced while controlling for structural changes exogenously and endogenously. Through anchoring our analysis to the portfolios capturing this institutional factor, we observe mostly positive pricing of the systematic risks, instead of the negative pricing often found in the literature on emerging markets. Within this well-controlled framework, some interesting points emerge. While full privatisation does not eliminate exposure to the national systematic risk, more heavily privatised firms (i.e., those with the least residual state ownership) tend to price only the global risk more often than less privatised ones. Hence, among partly-privatised firms, integration with the global market strengthens as state ownership decreases. These results suggest that emerging economies pursue rigorous privatisation and yet governments keep small stakes in privatised firms in order to ensure integration with the global market. Elsevier 2018-02-28 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en cc_by_nc_nd https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/43791/1/residual%20state%20owevership%20and%20stock%20market%20integration.pdf Li, Hong (2018) Residual state ownership and stock market integration: evidence from Chinese partly privatised firms. Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, 67 . pp. 100-112. ISSN 1062-9769 state ownership; political interference; asset pricing; stock market integration; Kalman smoothing; regime switching; http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1062976916301697 doi:10.1016/j.qref.2017.05.004 doi:10.1016/j.qref.2017.05.004
spellingShingle state ownership; political interference; asset pricing; stock market integration; Kalman smoothing; regime switching;
Li, Hong
Residual state ownership and stock market integration: evidence from Chinese partly privatised firms
title Residual state ownership and stock market integration: evidence from Chinese partly privatised firms
title_full Residual state ownership and stock market integration: evidence from Chinese partly privatised firms
title_fullStr Residual state ownership and stock market integration: evidence from Chinese partly privatised firms
title_full_unstemmed Residual state ownership and stock market integration: evidence from Chinese partly privatised firms
title_short Residual state ownership and stock market integration: evidence from Chinese partly privatised firms
title_sort residual state ownership and stock market integration: evidence from chinese partly privatised firms
topic state ownership; political interference; asset pricing; stock market integration; Kalman smoothing; regime switching;
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