英文摘要 |
The main purpose of Non-tradable Share Reform, one of the most important reforms in Chinese capital market, was to let the non-tradable shareholders have the liquidity of shares. A lot of non-tradable shareholders reduced their holding shares, and it resulted in the fluctuation of stock price for several years. In this paper, we focus on the 795 announcements of large non-tradable shareholders' holding reductions in the sampling period from 2009 to 2011. This paper investigates the large non-tradable shareholders' timing ability before their holding reductions, the market response after the announcements of those holding reductions, and the factors of the timing ability and the market response. The empirical results support that the large non-tradable shareholders did select the timing that they could earn considerable return when they began to reduce their holding shares. And two days before the announcement of holding reduction, the cumulative abnormal returns had dropped. It means that the information of holding reduction had been exposed before the announcement. We design a norm of timing ability of large non-tradable holders, and consider that if the non-tradable shareholders have selected the timing that they could earn considerable return, and sell their holding shares significantly in a short time, the non-tradable shareholders are earning excess returns through their timing ability. The regression analysis shows that if the compensation that non-tradable shareholders give tradable shareholders is higher, it would be more difficult for non-tradable shareholders to use the timing ability when they began to reduce their holding shares. Moreover, the higher the large non-tradable shareholders have control of a company, the more the timing selections exist. In addition, the higher the per share cash flow of a company is, which means the company has a better performance,the fewer the timing selections exist. As for the market response after the announcement of the large non-tradable shareholder' holding reductions, if the external shareholders found that the large non-tradable shareholders' used the timing ability to sell their holding shares, the stock price would drop more. Moreover, when the lock-up period is longer, which means that the non-tradable shareholders would like to hold the company's stock in a long term, there are fewer negative reactions of stock price after the announcements of the large non-tradable shareholders' holding reductions. |