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Intervention of large shareholders and corporate fraud – evidence from vertical interlock in corporate pyramids in an emerging economy

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  • Dan Yang
  • Canyu Xu
  • Shangkun Liang

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Through using 17,995 firm‐year observations of all the Chinese A‐share listed firms from 2008 to 2016 as a sample, we document that firms with vertical interlock have a lower likelihood of committing corporate fraud. We further test the underlying mechanisms, and we find that the effect of vertical interlock on the occurrence of corporate fraud is more pronounced when firms operate in a region with poor legal protection; with the legal environment being enhanced in China, the effect of vertical interlock has become less significant; and the effect of vertical interlock is also more pronounced when firms exhibit poor information environment at the firm level. Our results in this paper imply that the role of large shareholders and legal protection are substitutes in an emerging economy, and even with rapid economic and legal development in China, large shareholders keep playing a positive role in controlling fraudulent behaviours in Chinese listed firms.

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  • Dan Yang & Canyu Xu & Shangkun Liang, 2024. "Intervention of large shareholders and corporate fraud – evidence from vertical interlock in corporate pyramids in an emerging economy," Accounting and Finance, Accounting and Finance Association of Australia and New Zealand, vol. 64(2), pages 1981-2010, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:acctfi:v:64:y:2024:i:2:p:1981-2010
    DOI: 10.1111/acfi.13206
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