Trading constraints with unspecified constraint horizon are imposed on the shares held by the
state in the IPO of each listed firm in China Stock Market. In 2005, a so-called Split Share
Structure Reform (also known as Division Reform) was launched in which the holders of
restricted shares give up a proportion of their shares to purchase the right to terminate the
trading constraint. From the size of the compensation, we infer the value of restricted shares
and find that their price discounts are negatively affected by the restriction looseness captured
by our proposed new multi-dimensional measure and positively affected by the bargaining
power of the holders of freely-traded shares.
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