Abstract
This paper analyzes government incentives in privatization and shows that governments’ cheap talk results in non-credible policy. Ex-post, only bad firms will take a sequential strategy in privatization, which will reveal its type and lead to a price drop. These results are used to analyse China's share issue privatization plan and market reaction to it.
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