Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/212745 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
BOFIT Discussion Papers No. 21/2012
Publisher: 
Bank of Finland, Institute for Economies in Transition (BOFIT), Helsinki
Abstract: 
We study the consequences of CEO turnover announcements on the stock prices of firms in China, where most listed firms remain majority-owned by the state. Our proposition is that state ownership may affect stock market reaction to CEO replacement because state-owned firms often pursue multiple, potentially contradictory, objectives, i.e. economic performance and social objectives. Applying standard event study methodology to a sample of 1,094 announcements from 2002 to 2010, we find that CEO turnover typically produces a positive stock market reaction. The reaction is significantly positive, however, only for enterprises owned by the central government, and not significant for enterprises owned by local governments or privately owned enterprises. These results suggest that a CEO turnover in a central state-owned enterprise signals a renewed commitment to the economic performance objective by state officials. The small size of CEO labor market suggests that other shareholders have a relatively small pool of CEO talent to proceed to managerial improvement when a CEO turnover takes place.
Subjects: 
CEO turnover
corporate governance
state ownership
China
event study
JEL: 
G30
M51
P34
O16
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-952-462-752-8
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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