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SUBMITTER: Liu J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9612559 | biostudies-literature | 2022
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Liu Jie J Xu Limei L Zhang Qiaoyun Q
PloS one 20221027 10
We point out that the largest private shareholders can use their information advantage of the industry to influence banks' industry lending behavior. Using a sample of Chinese city commercial banks, we find that increasing of ownership stake of the largest private shareholders leads banks to lend more to their industries. Interestingly, the largest state-owned shareholders do not have this effect. More importantly, we confirmed the channel of the information advantage by analyzing the bank's ind ...[more]