Webinar
Webinar Series:
Capital Market Development: China and Asia
- Ownership Networks and Firm Growth: What Do Forty Million Companies Tell Us About the Chinese Economy?
17 February 2022, Thursday
10:00 am – 11:10 am, Thursday (Hong Kong Time, UTC+8)
[ Ownership Networks and Firm Growth: What Do Forty Million Companies Tell Us About the Chinese Economy? ]
The finance–growth nexus has been a central question in understanding the unprecedented success of the Chinese economy. Using unique data on all the registered firms in China, the authors build extensive firm-to-firm equity ownership networks. Entering a network and increasing network centrality leads to higher firm growth, and the effect of global centralities strengthens over time. The RMB 4 trillion stimulus launched by the Chinese government in 2008 partially “crowded out” the positive network effects. Equity ownership networks and bank credit tend to act as substitutes for state-owned enterprises, but as complements for private firms in promoting growth.
Speaker
Jun QIAN, Professor of Finance and Executive Dean at Fanhai International School of Finance (FISF), Fudan University
Co-authors:
Franklin ALLEN, Professor of Finance and Economics and Executive Director of the Brevan Howard Centre, Imperial College London
Junhui CAI, PhD Student, University of Pennsylvania
Xian GU, Associate Professor in Finance Durham University Business School, Durham University
Linda ZHAO, Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania
Wu ZHU, Assistant Professor of Finance at Tsinghua University, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant:
Michael SONG, Professor, Department of Economics, Chinese University of Hong Kong
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Registration
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About the Webinar
Financial market development goes hand-in-hand with economic growth. The development of China's capital markets in terms of size, regulations, capability, and efficiency has been impressive. China may now even lead globally in some dimensions, notably e-payments systems. Yet, China's capital markets are still a work-in-progress facing both generic and unique challenges. Other Asian capital markets have even greater uneven development. Some in advanced Asian economies have acquired globally acclaimed reputation and capabilities while various regulatory and structural weaknesses dwarf others. Corporations and investors have been inclined to arbitrage cross-border regulatory and developmental gaps; so the very uneven status of capital markets across Asia is a policy issue for the governments in the entire region and perhaps globally. Analysing the positive and negative lessons in the functioning of Asia's capital markets, and identifying reforms and applications of technology that could further improve Asian capital markets' allocation efficiency, financial inclusion, and forewarning against reforms that might cause problems can benefit practitioners, policymakers and researchers, and can contribute significantly to overall prosperity.
The ABFER and the University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute China (BFI-China), in collaboration with National University of Singapore (NUS) Business School, Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance (SAIF), The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) Department of Economics, CUHK-Shenzhen and Tsinghua University PBC School of Finance (Tsinghua PBCSF), hope to provide a virtual network to benefit researchers, policymakers, and practitioners from Asia and beyond.
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Event Website: https://abfer.org/events/abfer-events/webinar-series/287:webinarseries-cmd-16