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Research Article

Separation of control and cash flow rights, ultimate controlling shareholders’ equity pledge ratio and risk of control transfer--evidence from Chinese A-share listed companies

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ABSTRACT

Listed companies with a higher separation of two rights have less risk of control transfer of the ultimate controlling shareholder. The ultimate controlling shareholder’s equity pledge ratio plays a remarkable mediating role in this process. At different pledge rates, the ultimate controlling shareholder’s equity pledge exhibits an ‘encroachment’ or ‘incentive’ effect on corporate governance, respectively, resulting in an inverted U-shaped relationship between equity pledge rate and the risk of control transfer. Company size has a heterogeneous effect on the risk of control transfer, while shareholding concentration has heterogeneous and single threshold impacts on this risk.

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Notes

2 The coefficient of (Pledge×V/C)i,t−1 is 0.024709, very minor and not significant, it indicates that Pledgei,t−1 has a feeble moderating effect between (V/C)i,t−1 and Calli,t.

3 All the regression results in of this paper use robust standard errors.

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Funding

This work was supported by the [National Social Science Foundation of China] under Grant [No. 20XGL003].

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