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Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value: Evidence from Ghana

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  • Kong Yusheng

    (Jiangsu University, China.)

  • Samuel Asubonteng

    (Jiangsu University, China.)

  • Alex Antwi-Adjei

    (Jiangsu University, China.)

Abstract

We use a sample of 100 firms in Ghana 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.

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  • Kong Yusheng & Samuel Asubonteng & Alex Antwi-Adjei, 2019. "Ownership Structure, Corporate Governance, and Firm Value: Evidence from Ghana," European Journal of Business and Management Research, European Open Science, vol. 4(6), November.
    • Handle: RePEc:epw:ejbmr0:v:4:y:2019:i:6:id:50140
    DOI: 10.24018/ejbmr.2019.4.6.140
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