fraction of shares controlled by large shareholders) and firm value (measured as the simple

Tobin's Q) of the largest EU and US companies. Using Granger causality tests we find no

significant causal effects either way in the US/UK, but in continental Europe we find a

negative effect of blockholder ownership on firm value and a negative effect of firm value on

blockholder ownership. Consistent with an overall non-linear relationship, as hypothesised by

Morck, Shleifer and Vishny (1988) and Stultz (1988), the negative effect of blockholder

ownership on firm value performance is found to be significant only for companies with high

initial levels of blockholder ownership (> 10%), but insignificant for companies with low

initial levels. Consistent with lower protection of minority investors and larger private

benefits of control (Shleifer and Vishny, 1997) the causal relationships are only significant in

continental Europe, even for high initial levels of blockholder ownership.

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