The role of political capital on private equity placement acquisition for Chinese publicly listed private sector enterprises.

This paper explores the relationship between various forms of political capital and the private equity placement of publicly listed PSEs. The results show that the political capital of PSEs can significantly affect PEP in the processing time, approval results and scale of financing. Specifically, implicit political capital can significantly shorten the processing time, but cannot significantly affect the approval results; however, both partial state ownership and political participation can significantly increase the approval rating. Moreover, partial state ownership has the most powerful effect on the scale of financing. In addition, the analysis of the impact of different levels of entrepreneurs' political identity on PEP applications reveal that as the level of political identity increases, the PEP approval rate is higher. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]