Local political corruption and M&As

• Main Authors: LIU, Chun, CHEN, Yang, LI, Shanmin, SUN, Liang, YANG, Mengjie
• 格式: text
• 語言: English
• 出版: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• 主題: Political corruption; Anti-corruption campaign; M&As; China; Accounting; Asian Studies; Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics; Corporate Finance
• 在線閱讀: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soa_research/1960; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soa_research/article/2987/viewcontent/LocalCorruption_av.pdf
• 機構: Singapore Management University

We examine the relation between local political corruption and firms' cross-province M&As using provincial-level data on corruption in China. The results show that firms in more corrupt regions are less likely to engage in cross-province M&As. Further analyses reveal that the effects of...