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Title: | The Chinese discount puzzle |
Authors: | S. Eun, Cheol S. Janakiramanan Lee, Bong- Soo |
Conference Name: | The thirteenth Annual PACAP/FMA Finance Conference |
Keywords: | Foreign investors Asset pricing |
Conference Date: | 2001-07-05 |
Conference Location: | Westin Chosun Hotel, Seoul, Korea Radisson Plaza Hotel, Seoul, Korea |
Abstract: | When foreigners' equity investment is restricted, shares held by foreign investors tend to trade at a premium relative to those held by local investors in all the countries with such restrictions. The only exception to this is China, where B-shares held by foreigners trade at substantial discounts relative to A- shares that the Chinese investors hold. In this paper, we offer an explanation for this puzzle based on an asset pricing model that allows for several key characteristics of the Chinese capital markets, i.e., (i) Chinese and foreign investors face different risk-free interest rates; (ii) Chinese investors are prohibited • from holding B-shares, and foreigners from holding A-shares; (iii) Only a subset of Chinese firms issue B-shares; and (iv) The Chinese have no legal access to foreign capital markets. The pricing model shows that a firm's B-share discount is positively related to the world covariance risk of B-shares, negatively to the Chinese covariance risk of A-shares, and positively to the difference between the world risk-free interest rate and the Chinese rate. In addition, the inaccessibility of foreign securities for Chinese investors is shown to contribute to B-share discounts by inducing foreigners to reduce their demand for B-shares. Our empirical tests generally support the implications of the pricing mode |
Pages: | 57 |
Call Number: | HG4026.A536 2001 katsem |
Appears in Collections: | Seminar Papers/ Proceedings / Kertas Kerja Seminar/ Prosiding |
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