Can the improvement of competitive adequacy and fairness reduce discriminatory M&A behavior? Evidence from the market access negative list pilot in China

Corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&As) are subject to skewed logic due to excessive government regulation. China is progressively adopting the Market Access Negative List (MANL) pilot to transfer the power of resource allocation from the government to the market. Using the DID method, we exam...

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Main Authors: Xiongyuan Wang, Jing Xu, Shuai Wang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2024-03-01
Series:China Journal of Accounting Research
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1755309123000503