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Why Companies Go Private in Emerging Markets? Evidence from Poland

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  • Oskar Kowalewski

    (Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship & Managment)

  • Krzysztof Jackowicz

    (Leon Kozminski Academy of Entrepreneurship & Managment)

Abstract

In recent years the number of going private transactions has sharply increased in emerging markets. The purpose of this study is to establish the financial characteristics of companies that have gone private using a dataset comprising of Polish companies. We use a probit model to distinguish the difference between firms that went private and companies that did not. We find that the probability of going private grew with a rise in the concentration of foreign ownership, an increase in the relative level of free cash flows, a decrease in the level of long term debt, and a decrease in the liquidity of share trading. The results obtained are important both for investors wishing to identify entities characterized by a high likelihood of going private and for governmental authorities evaluating the methods and rationality of privatization mature state- owned enterprises.

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Paper provided by EconWPA in its series Finance with number 0511013.

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Length: 30 pages
Date of creation: 25 Nov 2005
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Handle: RePEc:wpa:wuwpfi:0511013

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Keywords: Going Private; free cash flow; information asymmetry; ownership structure; emerging markets;

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  1. Pop, Diana & Pop, Adrian & Chemla, Gilles, 2010. "Privatization and governance regulation in frontier emerging markets: The case of Romania," Open Access publications from Université Paris-Dauphine urn:hdl:123456789/7707, Université Paris-Dauphine.

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