RT Article
T1 Ownership Structure and Insider Trading: Evidence from China
JF Journal of business ethics
VO 134
IS 4
SP 553
OP 574
A1 He, Qing
A1 Rui, Oliver M.
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2016
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785657208
AB In this paper, we examine the information content of insider transactions in China and analyze how ownership structures shape market reaction to these transactions. We find that the cumulative abnormal return (CAR) to insider purchases is a convex function of the percentage of shares owned by the largest shareholder. Further, the CAR to insider purchases is lower when the largest shareholder is government-related, or when the control rights of the largest shareholder exceed its cash flow rights. We also find that the market reaction to insider purchases is more positive for firms audited by Big4 auditors. However, we do not find a significant relationship between an ownership structure and the market reaction to insider sales. Our results are remarkably robust to alternative model specifications, corporate insider identities, and recent corporate news releases on price-sensitive events. Finally, we show that market reaction to insider purchases is larger for firms with less severe expropriations, as captured by the use of other receivables.
K1 G34
K1 China
K1 Audit Quality
K1 Ownership structure
K1 Insider trading
DO 10.1007/s10551-014-2384-4