Political Connections and the Process of Going Public: Evidence from China

By Bill Francis, Iftekhar Hasan, Xiaohu Sun. 2009

327 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Accounting, Strategy and Management

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In Accounting

1. Sofia Johan
2. Wenfeng Wu
3. Wenxuan Hou
4. G. Moore
5. Oliver M. Rui
6. Lars Helge Haß
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1. Sofia Johan
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8. Hasan Fauzi

Citations in the corpus

• Government Connections and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Large Representative Sample of Chinese Firms (2013, unknown): “10 SOEs.10 Many of these SOES are chronic loss-makers, resulting in a severe misallocation of credit.”
• Institutional Investors, Political Connections, and the Incidence of Regulatory Enforcement Against Corporate Fraud (2014, background): “…at favorable terms (Dinc 2005; Leuz and Oberholzer-Gee 2006; Khawaja andMian 2005), favorable tax treatment (Adhikari et al. 2006; Faccio 2006), a higher initial public offering (IPO) price (Francis et al. 2009), and government bailouts in the event of financial distress (Faccio et al. 2006).”
• Player and Referee Roles Held Jointly: The Effect of State Ownership on China’s Regulatory Enforcement Against Fraud (2010, background): “, 2010), and politically connected issuing firms enjoy significant benefits of their preference (Francis et al., 2009).”
• Political activity and firm performance within nonmarket research: A review and international comparative assessment (2015, unknown): “(2007) Fisman (2001) Francis et al. (2009) Fraser et al.”