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Do Main Banks Extract Rents from Their Client Firms? Evidence from Korean Chaebol

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  • Kim, Kevin Y.
  • Park, Kwangwoo
  • Ratti, Ronald A.
  • Shin, Hyun-Han

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Using a unique data set on all industrial firms listed on Korea Stock Exchange and KOSDAQ stock market from 1991 to 2000, we find that cash ratios for chaebol firms are lower than for non-chaebol firms. Controlling for access to the bond market and financial services arms does not change this result. We do however find that there is a shift in the degree of bank power over the last decade. Consistent with the main bank monopoly hypothesis during the corporate restructuring process after the financial crisis in 1997, the interest differential charged to chaebol firms is significantly higher than the earlier period, suggesting extraction of rents against chaebol client firms by main banks.
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  • Kim, Kevin Y. & Park, Kwangwoo & Ratti, Ronald A. & Shin, Hyun-Han, 2004. "Do Main Banks Extract Rents from Their Client Firms? Evidence from Korean Chaebol," Hitotsubashi Journal of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, vol. 45(1), pages 15-45, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:hit:hitjec:v:45:y:2004:i:1:p:15-45
    DOI: 10.15057/7671
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    1. Slomka, Agnieszka, 2005. "Have banks filled the gap? Credit as a mechanism of corporate governance in a transition country: example of Poland," MPRA Paper 642, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Agnieszka Slomka-Golebiowska, 2014. "Bankers on boards as corporate governance mechanism: evidence from Poland," Journal of Management & Governance, Springer;Accademia Italiana di Economia Aziendale (AIDEA), vol. 18(4), pages 1019-1040, November.
    3. Yong-Seok Choi & Insik Min, 2015. "Cash Holdings With The Precautionary Motive Among Korean Chaebol And Non-Chaebol Firms: A Quantile Regression Approach," The Singapore Economic Review (SER), World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., vol. 60(05), pages 1-22, December.
    4. Lee, Sangwoo & Park, Kwangwoo & Shin, Hyun-Han, 2009. "Disappearing internal capital markets: Evidence from diversified business groups in Korea," Journal of Banking & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 33(2), pages 326-334, February.
    5. Masanori Orihara & Yoshiaki Ogura & Yue Cai, 2022. "Borrowing in Unsettled Times and Cash Holdings Afterwards," Working Papers 2207, Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics.
    6. Lee, Sangwoo & Park, Kwangwoo & Shin, Hyun-Han, 2005. "The Very Dark Side of Internal Capital Markets: Evidence from Diversified Business Groups in Korea," CEI Working Paper Series 2005-7, Center for Economic Institutions, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.

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    • G15 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - International Financial Markets
    • G18 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Government Policy and Regulation
    • G32 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill

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