Publication Type

Journal Article

Version

acceptedVersion

Publication Date

5-2020

Abstract

China’s A-shares family listed companies are facing a period of high intergenerational succession. This has attracted the attention and research of many scholars. The existing studies mainly focus on the motives, methods, and influencing factors of family business’ intergenerational succession, and there are few studies involving the reaction of the capital markets. This article takes 45 listed family businesses as samples and uses the synthetic control method to examine the impact and the degree of influence that intergenerational succession has on stock price movements. Thereafter, a difference-in-differences estimation is conducted to test for robustness. At the conclusion of our research, we find that intergenerational succession has a significant negative effect on the stock price of listed companies.

Keywords

Family Business, intergenerational succession, synthetic control method, capital market reaction

Discipline

Asian Studies | Corporate Finance | Entrepreneurial and Small Business Operations

Publication

Applied Economics Letters

Volume

27

Issue

8

First Page

667

Last Page

672

ISSN

1350-4851

Identifier

10.1080/13504851.2019.1644424

Publisher

Taylor and Francis

Embargo Period

5-26-2021

Copyright Owner and License

Authors

Additional URL

https://doi.org/10.1080/13504851.2019.1644424

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