Annual Conference

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Corporate Finance, Senior Fellows/Fellows

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May 2013

Understanding Informal Financing

Franklin ALLEN, Meijun QIAN, Jing XIE
This paper offers a unified framework to understand informal financing. We explore various sources of informal financing based on their mechanisms to deal with asymmetric information and enforcement and examine their role in supporting firm growth. We find that constructive informal financing such a...
Keywords: Informal financing, asymmetric information, social collateral, firm growth
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Annual Conference

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Capital Market Development: China and Asia

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May 2013

Why Investors Do Not Buy Cheaper Securities: Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Baolian WANG, Kalok CHAN, Zhishu YANG
We examine the trading behavior of Chinese domestic investors after they were given access to the B-share market in 2001. Surprisingly, we find that only 2% of investors began buying B shares. Even among these 2%, investors were less likely to buy B shares if they had more experience in the A-share ...
Keywords: A/B share prices, portfolio inertia, trading experience, trading performance
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