Selection, staging and sequencing in the recent Chinese privatization

Abstract

Selection in privatization is a decision-making process of choosing state-owned enterprises (SOEs), prioritizing and sequencing privatizing events, and determining the extent of private ownership in partial privatization. We investigate this process in an important but rarely studied case of China. Based on the SOE population over 1998-2008, we track 49,456 wholly SOEs and identify 9,359 privatization cases over time. Our econometric analysis concludes: (i) The privatization selection is a complex decision-making process in which local governments balance between various economic, financial and political objectives. (ii) In the recent Chinese privatization, firm performance relates to the selection, staging and sequencing in privatization in an inverted-U fashion. The worse and the best performing SOEs are more likely to remain state-owned, maintain higher state holding when privatized, and are less likely to be privatized later in time. These patterns suggest the privatization reform slowdown and the underlying changes in the privatization policy.

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/684230
Divisions: College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship
Uncontrolled Keywords: privatisation,restructuring,China,political economy,Economics and Econometrics,Law
Publication ISSN: 1537-5285
Last Modified: 05 Jan 2024 08:17
Date Deposited: 21 Oct 2015 13:55
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2015-08
Authors: Du, Jun (ORCID Profile 0000-0002-0449-4437)
Liu, Xiaoxuan

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