Capital Market Governance: How Do Security Laws Affect Market Performance?

53 Pages Posted: 21 Apr 2005

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Hazem Daouk

Cornell University - School of Applied Economics and Management

Charles M.C. Lee

Foster School of Business, University of Washington; Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

David T. Ng

Johnson College of Business

Date Written: February 16, 2006

Abstract

This paper examines the link between capital market governance (CMG) and several key measures of market performance. Using detailed data from individual stock exchanges, we develop a composite CMG index that captures three dimensions of security laws: the degree of earnings opacity, the enforcement of insider laws, and the effect of removing short-selling restrictions. We find that improvements in the CMG index are associated with decreases in the cost-of-equity capital (both implied and realized), increases in market liquidity (trading volume and market depth), and increases in market pricing efficiency (reduced price synchronicity and IPO underpricing). The results are quite consistent across individual components of CMG and over alternative market performance measures.

Keywords: capital market governance, insider trading, earnings opacity, market performance

JEL Classification: G15, G30

Suggested Citation

Daouk, Hazem and Lee, Charles M.C. and Ng, David T., Capital Market Governance: How Do Security Laws Affect Market Performance? (February 16, 2006). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=702682 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.702682

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Charles M.C. Lee

Foster School of Business, University of Washington ( email )

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Stanford University - Graduate School of Business

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David T. Ng

Johnson College of Business ( email )

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