scholarly journals A mini review of the Chinese stock market: From 1978 to 2010

2013 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 700-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yi An ◽  
Umesh Sharma ◽  
Harun Harun
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Economic Reform ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Chinese Stock Market ◽  
Listed Firms

The Chinese economic reform, starting from 1978, facilitated the emergence and development of the capital markets. This paper provides a brief review of the Chinese stock market from various perspectives, such as the regulation, issuance of shares, shareholding structure and financial reporting of listed firms, and future development. It is expected that our paper could offer readers andresearchers who are in the Chinese capital market, particularly in the area of accounting and finance, a general understanding of the market.

Investor recognition and stock returns: evidence from China

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hongquan Zhu ◽  
Lingling Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Stock Returns ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Univariate Analysis ◽  
Chinese Stock Market ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Monthly Return ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose Merton’s model of capital market equilibrium under incomplete information predicts that contemporaneous stock returns are positively related to investor recognition and that future stock returns are negatively related to investor recognition. The purpose of this paper is to empirically investigate whether Merton’s theory holds true for the Chinese stock market. Design/methodology/approach This paper proposes the degree of shareholder base growth (SBG) as a proxy for investor recognition and examines the relationship between investor recognition and stock returns through a univariate analysis and Fama-Macbeth cross-sectional regressions based on A-Share listed firms. Findings The results show that investor recognition is nonlinearly and positively related to contemporaneous stock returns and is negatively related to future stock returns in contrast to the conclusions of Merton’s theory. A long-short trading strategy that involves buying stocks with the lowest SBG rate and that sells stocks with the highest SBG rate will earn an average monthly return of 3.615 percent. Research limitations/implications Though Merton’s theory is not fully reflected in the Chinese stock market, investor recognition is considered an important risk factor in the Chinese stock market. Originality/value No works have yet investigated the validity of Merton’s “investor cognition hypothesis” in relation to the Chinese stock market. This paper strives to fill this gap.

Determinants of Trading Decision: An Experiential Examination

GIS Business ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Gunjan Sharma ◽  
Tarika Singh ◽  
Suvijna Awasthi
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Capital Mobility ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Herd Behavior ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Government ◽  
Indian Stock Market

In the midst of increasing globalization, the past two decades have observed huge inflow of outside capital in the shape of direct and portfolio investment. The increase in capital mobility is due to contact between the different economies across the globe. The growing liberalization in the capital market leads to the growth of various financial products and services. Over the past decade, the Indian capital market has witnessed numerous changes in the direction of developing the capital markets more robust. With the growing Indian economy, the larger inflow of funds has been fetched into the capital markets. The government is continuously working on investor’s education in order to increase retail participation in the Indian stock market. The habits of the risk-averse middle class have been changing where these investors started participating in the Indian stock market. It is an explored fact that human beings are irrational and considering this fact becomes imperative to investigate factors that influence the trading decisions. In this research, ‘an attempt has been made to investigate various factors that affect the individual trading decision’. The data has been collected from various stockbroking firms and from clients of those stockbroking firms their opinions were recorded by means of a questionnaire. Data collected through the structured questionnaire, 33 questions were prepared which was given to the 330 respondents on the basis of convenience sampling out of which 220 individuals filled questionnaire, the total of 200 questionnaires was included in the study after eliminating the incomplete questionnaire. Various factors are being explored from the literature and then with the help of factor analysis some of the most influential factors have been explored. Factors like overconfidence, optimism, cognitive bias, herd behavior, advisory effect, and idealism are the factors which influenced the trading decision of the investors the most. Such kind of a study is contributing in the area of behavioral finance as a trading decision is an important aspect while investing in the stock market. And this kind of study would be helping and assisting financial advisors to strategies for their clients in making the right allocation and also the policy maker and market regulators to come up with better reforms for the Indian stock markets.

Financial flexibility, managerial efficiency and firm life cycle on firm performance

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 168-180
Author(s):  
Heng-Yu Chang ◽  
Chun-Ai Ma
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Life Cycles ◽  
Mature Stage ◽  
Chinese Stock Market ◽  
Financial Flexibility ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Managerial Efficiency

Purpose As the capital market in China is still developing, several constraints on a Chinese-listed firm’s financing strategy have a direct impact on its financial flexibility. The purpose of this paper is to reconstruct traditional financial flexibility index (FFI) derived from the western context, provide empirical evidence within eastern context by modified FFI and examine how the managerial efficiency of Chinese-listed firms is demonstrated with modified FFI to escort corporate life cycle hypothesis. Design/methodology/approach By tailored FFI to fit the contemporary operations of Chinese-listed firms, this study investigates how managerial efficiency varies across different life stages to demonstrate the moderating power in the firm performance of financially flexible firm. Findings It is found that financially flexible firms in the Chinese stock market generally experience good firm performance, yet the managerial efficiency could gradually be diminishing at their mature stage even firms’ financial flexibility remains consistent with the agency theory. This paper sheds light on the necessity to reexamine the components in financial flexibility based on the eastern context, and provides avenue to further understand the managerial behavior of Chinese listed firms when considering firm life cycles. Research limitations/implications Although it is difficult for this current study to offer the precise weights on each factor in calculating financial flexibility, the judgment matrix method is adopted to at least provide reliable estimates in accordance with Chinese business contexts with less than 10 percent errors in contrast to the actual weights. Practical implications This modified FFI is particularly suitable for Chinese-listed firms under certain unique financial reporting regulations by adjusting a number of weights and factors. This study may help practitioners understand the managerial conduct of publicly listed firms in China. Originality/value The paper constructs a modified FFI with Chinese stock market characteristics embedded, and provides insightful evidence to explain the new pecking order theory by considering the life cycle stage of Chinese-listed companies.

A Computation Methods for Analysis on the Effect of Stock Market and its Application

2014 ◽  
Vol 1078 ◽  
pp. 444-447
Author(s):  
Zhan Xin Ma ◽  
En Yang Zhao ◽  
Xi Ming Lv ◽  
Zhi Min Ma
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Turnover Rate ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Chinese Economy ◽  
Data Envelopment ◽  
Chinese Stock Market ◽  
Return On Assets ◽  
Generalized Data Envelopment Analysis ◽  
New Policies

As a barometer of the macroeconomic of a country and an important part of the capital market, stock market has attracted increasing and highlighted attention. As is well-known, Chinese stock market is known as 'policy market', however, the issue about whether the stock market is really influenced by these policies is always an important and hot topic. In this paper, by using generalized data envelopment analysis, an analysis on the effect of the new policies carried out in May 2012 is provided based on closing price, Tobin Q, circulation market value, turnover rate, and return on assets. Based on the above results, it can show the effect of stock market policies on Chinese Economy.

scholarly journals A Preliminary Study of the Emerging and Developing Stock Market of China

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 100
Author(s):  
Hai Long
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Chinese Stock Market ◽  
Significant Development ◽  
Listed Firms ◽  
Ipo Performance ◽  
Growth Enterprise Market ◽  
New Findings ◽  
Ipo Pricing ◽  
Preliminary Study

<p><em>The Chinese share market as an emerging and fast-growing listing venue has experienced a significant development since 2000.Prior studies on this market overwhelmingly concentrate on IPO-pricing-related and post-IPO performance-based propositions with lagging data. Adopting the updated data within the last couple of years, this paper comprehensively explores and accounts for some striking features of the Chinese stock market, and unfolds</em><em> </em><em>some new causes contributing to these characteristics.</em></p> <p><em>Some new findings are revealed. 1)</em><em> </em><em>Two new factors may lead to the extreme under</em><em> </em><em>pricing in China’s</em><em> </em><em>market, which are</em><em> </em><em>the unseasoned investor</em><em> </em><em>sand their high demands of IPO shares. 2)</em><em> </em><em>The foreign-currency trading platform is not effective and efficient to attract the overseas investors.</em><em> </em><em>3)</em><em> </em><em>The imbalanced industry structure of the listed firms is very significant, the Chinese share market is dominated by the manufacturing firms.4)</em><em> </em><em>The Growth Enterprise Market of China is essential to address the long-standing financing difficulties for the Chinese Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, which are unqualified to raise capital from the Primary Stock Market.</em></p>

The role of state ownership on earnings quality: evidence across public and private European firms

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 312-332 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Gaio ◽  
Inês Pinto
Keyword(s):  
Earnings Management ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Earnings Quality ◽  
State Ownership ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Large Sample

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of state ownership on financial reporting quality regarding the characteristics of conservatism and earnings management. Design/methodology/approach Using a large sample of public and private European firms during the period 2003-2010, the authors test the hypotheses following Ball and Shivakumar’s (2005) model for conservatism and the modified Jones (1991) model proposed by Dechow and Sloan (1995) for earnings management. To ensure that the results are robust, the authors conduct sensitivity analysis with regard to potential endogeneity and selection bias. Findings The authors find that state-owned firms are less conservative than non-state-owned firms, which is consistent with the idea that there is less need for accounting conservatism due to government protection. The authors also show that capital markets play an important role in shaping the relation between state ownership and earnings management. Among public firms, the authors find that state-owned firms have higher abnormal accruals and worse accruals quality than non-state-owned firms, which suggests that state-owned firms are not immune to capital market pressures. Research limitations/implications The study has two limitations. First, as state-owned and non-state-owned firms face quite different incentive structures, management behavior might be determined by factors that have yet to be identified. Second, prior research results suggest an inverted U-shape relation between ownership concentration and earnings management (Ding et al., 2007). It would be interesting to investigate the impact of different levels of state ownership on earnings quality. Practical implications As the paper investigates the role of state ownership on earnings quality using a sample of European firms, it brings new insights regarding the role of state ownership in accounting quality and firm performance. In addition, it considers the role of capital markets in the relation between the quality of financial reporting and ownership by considering a sample with both public and private firms. Originality/value The study contributes to the debate about state intervention in the corporate sector, by extending the knowledge of the effects of government ownership on earnings quality by using a large sample of European firms. Furthermore, the authors also introduce the effect of capital market forces on managers’ behavior in state-owned and non-state-owned companies by analyzing private and publicly listed firms.

The Shanghai-Hong Kong Stock Market

2015 ◽  
Vol 07 (03) ◽  
pp. 36-45
Author(s):  
Jing WAN
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
Stock Market ◽  
Capital Markets ◽  
Capital Market ◽  
Stock Markets ◽  
Market Access ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Opening Up ◽  
Hong Kong Stock Market ◽  
The Capital Market

The Stock Connect scheme launched on 17 November 2014 was the first mutual market access between mainland China and Hong Kong stock markets. It is the biggest move ever in the opening up of the capital market. Experiences accumulated will be of great value to mainland regulators who will decide on how these experiences could be utilised for China’s future opening up of its capital markets and for accelerating renminbi internationalisation.

Who Benefits From IFRS Convergence in China?

2017 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-124 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chao Chen ◽  
Edward Lee ◽  
Gerald J. Lobo ◽  
Jessie Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Stock Market ◽  
Financial Reporting ◽  
Value Relevance ◽  
Reporting Quality ◽  
Chinese Stock Market ◽  
External Financing ◽  
Market Reactions ◽  
Financial Reporting Standards ◽  
Legal Enforcement ◽  
Stock Market Reactions

We study the ex ante stock market reactions to events leading up to China’s convergence to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The literature consistently shows that the benefits of mandatory IFRS convergence are concentrated in countries with stronger legal enforcement and investor protection. Given that these institutional characteristics are weaker in China relative to more developed Western economies, whether mandating IFRS will benefit the Chinese capital market is an interesting and important, but unanswered question. We find that the Chinese stock market reacts favorably to events leading up to IFRS convergence, and this effect is more pronounced among firms with greater dependence on external capital. This result suggests the market anticipates that such firms will benefit more from IFRS convergence, possibly because of improved financial reporting quality and access to external financing. Additional tests confirm that the value relevance of accounting numbers for these firms is higher following IFRS convergence.

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