Michael L. Lemmon (David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah) Karl V. Lins (David Eccles School of Business at the University of Utah)
Abstract
We use a sample of 800 firms in eight East Asian countries to study the effect of ownership structure on value during the region's financial crisis. The crisis negatively impacted firms' investment opportunities, raising the incentives of controlling shareholders to expropriate minority investors. Crisis period stock returns of firms in which managers have high levels of control rights, but have separated their control and cash flow ownership, are 10-20 percentage points lower than those of other firms. The evidence is consistent with the view that ownership structure plays an important role in determining whether insiders expropriate minority shareholders. Copyright (c) 2003 by the American Finance Association.
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