Is pledge risk matched between pledgees and pledgers in China’s share pledge market?

Based on a sample of share pledging by the controlling shareholders of A-share listed firms, we investigate whether pledge risk is matched between pledgees and pledgers in China’s share pledge market. The results show that, compared with broker pledgees, commercial bank pledgees accept pledged stock...

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Autores principales: Deren Xie, Mengyu Zhang
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:2a962355a6e2431cace172daada2d7ea2021-11-26T04:25:55ZIs pledge risk matched between pledgees and pledgers in China’s share pledge market?1755-309110.1016/j.cjar.2021.100207https://doaj.org/article/2a962355a6e2431cace172daada2d7ea2021-12-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755309121000496https://doaj.org/toc/1755-3091Based on a sample of share pledging by the controlling shareholders of A-share listed firms, we investigate whether pledge risk is matched between pledgees and pledgers in China’s share pledge market. The results show that, compared with broker pledgees, commercial bank pledgees accept pledged stocks with lower market risk and the corresponding listed firms are at lower risk, have higher levels of information transparency and are more likely to be state-owned enterprises (SOEs). We also find that commercial bank pledgees do not ease the risk requirement of pledged stocks for pledgers of SOEs. Further, we document that commercial bank pledgees face lower margin call risks than broker pledgees. After securities companies were authorized to compete in the share pledge market in 2013, the pledge risk faced by commercial bank pledgees further reduced. Our results support that China’s share pledge financing market generally achieves an efficient equilibrium in terms of pledge risk matching between pledgees and pledgers. We recommend that the macro control of share pledge risk be focused on broker pledgees.Deren XieMengyu ZhangElsevierarticleShare pledgePledgeesPledgersRisk matchingAccounting. BookkeepingHF5601-5689ENChina Journal of Accounting Research, Vol 14, Iss 4, Pp 100207- (2021)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic Share pledge
Pledgees
Pledgers
Risk matching
Accounting. Bookkeeping
HF5601-5689
spellingShingle Share pledge
Pledgees
Pledgers
Risk matching
Accounting. Bookkeeping
HF5601-5689
Deren Xie
Mengyu Zhang
Is pledge risk matched between pledgees and pledgers in China’s share pledge market?
description Based on a sample of share pledging by the controlling shareholders of A-share listed firms, we investigate whether pledge risk is matched between pledgees and pledgers in China’s share pledge market. The results show that, compared with broker pledgees, commercial bank pledgees accept pledged stocks with lower market risk and the corresponding listed firms are at lower risk, have higher levels of information transparency and are more likely to be state-owned enterprises (SOEs). We also find that commercial bank pledgees do not ease the risk requirement of pledged stocks for pledgers of SOEs. Further, we document that commercial bank pledgees face lower margin call risks than broker pledgees. After securities companies were authorized to compete in the share pledge market in 2013, the pledge risk faced by commercial bank pledgees further reduced. Our results support that China’s share pledge financing market generally achieves an efficient equilibrium in terms of pledge risk matching between pledgees and pledgers. We recommend that the macro control of share pledge risk be focused on broker pledgees.
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author Deren Xie
Mengyu Zhang
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Mengyu Zhang
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title Is pledge risk matched between pledgees and pledgers in China’s share pledge market?
title_short Is pledge risk matched between pledgees and pledgers in China’s share pledge market?
title_full Is pledge risk matched between pledgees and pledgers in China’s share pledge market?
title_fullStr Is pledge risk matched between pledgees and pledgers in China’s share pledge market?
title_full_unstemmed Is pledge risk matched between pledgees and pledgers in China’s share pledge market?
title_sort is pledge risk matched between pledgees and pledgers in china’s share pledge market?
publisher Elsevier
publishDate 2021
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