Stock Liquidity and Firm Value: Evidence from China

Peer Reviewed
1 January 2018

Empirical evidence for the effect of stock liquidity on firm value is limited and mixed due to a severe endogeneity problem. This article adds to the literature on this topic by providing new empirical evidence using the nontradable share reform in China as a quasi-natural experiment. Our results show that higher stock liquidity can lead to significant firm value improvement.

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Sustainable Development Goals
Publication reference
Lijie Zhang, Yong Li, Zhuo Huang & Xinhan Chen (2018) Stock liquidity and firm value: evidence from China, Applied Economics Letters, 25:1, 47-50
Publication | 30 June 2018