Variable Type

Variable Name

Variable Symbol

Variable Measure Method

Explained Variable

Welfare-tendency of Equity incentive plan

Scores

The number of stock option evaluation indicator

Explanatory variable

The severity of large shareholders’ tunneling

Orect

Other receivables/company total asset

Corporation

governance variable

The proportion of the independent board member

Ind

The number of independent board member/the total member of the board

Duality of chairman and CEO

Dual

If chairman and CEO is the same person, recorded as 1, otherwise to 0.

The total number of the first largest shareholder equity ratio

Top1

The first largest shareholder’s stock holding amount/company total capital stock

The proportion of managerial ownership

Manho

The managers’ stock holding amout/company total capital stock

Degree of ownership constraints

Countb

the proportion of the first major stockholder and the second major stockholder

The number of the board

Board

The number of the board

The number of the supervisory board

Supv

The number of the supervisory board

Financial characteristic

variable

The sales income growth rate

Incom

(sales income of this year- sales income of last year)/sales income of last year

Operational cash flow

Acf

Total operational cash flow/company total capital stock

State-owned share-holding rate

State

State-owned share-holding/company total capital stock

Company size

Size

natural logarithm of total assets

leverage ratio

Lev

total debt/total assets

Total return on assets

Roa

Total profits/total assets