| Abstract: | After the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake, more and more scholars have showed increasing interest in corporate charitable donations. In China, enterprises, particularly private enterprises, are important forces in charitable donations. With the S share listed companies in China from 2003 to 2014 as the samples, empirical tests are made in this paper to confirm the effect of the ownership of property right on corporate donations; then based on the monetary policy, whether financing constraint influences the corporate donations is checked. Results show that compared with state-owned enterprises, the private enterprises are more strategically motivated with larger donation scale. Further study shows that monetary policy is an important element to affect the donation of private enterprises. These findings not only enrich the existing literature, but also expand research on macroeconomic policies and microcosmic firm behaviors. |
