Propping by controlling shareholders, wealth transfer and firm performance: Evidence from Chinese listed companies

Propping acts by controlling shareholders are common in Chinese listed firms. In this paper, we use data on related-party transactions of all listed Chinese firms from 2002 to 2008 to investigate the motivation behind controlling shareholders’ propping acts and subsequent wealth-transfer behavior an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Qianwei Ying, Liang Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-06-01
Series:China Journal of Accounting Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S175530911300004X