Impact of political connections on Chinese export firms' performance – Lessons for other emerging markets

This paper explores the differences in the impact of political connections on the performance of Chinese exporter and non-exporter firms and among three types of exporter firms; private-owned (POE), local state-owned (LSOE) and central state-owned (CSOE). Our sample has 7326 firm-year observations from 1945 firms listed on Shanghai and Shenzhen stock exchanges during 2006–2010 period. Using export sales, ratio of export to total sales and return...