Scandinavian Working Papers in Economics
Knut Wicksell Working Paper Series,
Lund University, Knut Wicksell Centre for Financial Studies
No 2013/14: Foreign Institutional Investors and Stock Market Liquidity in China: State Ownership, Trading Activity and Information Asymmetry
Mingfa Ding (), Birger Nilsson () and Sandy Suardi ()
Abstract: The Chinese government has implemented the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) system in order to promote stock market liquidity by participation of foreign institutional investors. This paper is the first to explicitly identify the channels through which foreign institutional investors influence the liquidity on the Chinese stock markets. Firstly, we find that market participation by foreign institutional investors promotes liquidity both for state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and non-SOEs. Secondly, foreign institutions influence liquidity through the informational frictions channel, but not through the real frictions channel. Thirdly, as implied by these two results, foreign institutions are not informationally disadvantaged when investing in SOEs. Finally, the link between foreign institutional participation and liquidity remains strong before, during, and after the recent financial crisis.
Keywords: Liquidity; emerging markets; foreign institutional investors; real frictions; informational frictions
36 pages, June 19, 2013
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