Management Trading in Chinese Entrepreneurial Firms on the ChiNext

May Hu, Xiao Jun and Jingjing Yang

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2015, vol. 51, issue S5, S33-S45

Abstract: We examine management trading in Chinese entrepreneurial firms on the ChiNext. We find that management shareholdings are considerably high, and executives tend to sell their shares after the IPOs on the ChiNext. The propensity for executives to sell shares is negatively correlated with the firms’ corporate governance and current operating cash flows, but the amount they sell is only positively correlated with the level of management holdings. Both the management selling decision and percentage of selling do not associate with firms’ earnings and sales growth. This suggests that managers are profit makers rather than informed traders in their selling activities on the ChiNext. We also find that the market reaction to management selling is substantially negative, which implies a herding effect of investors following executives to sell shares.

Date: 2015
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