Equity Ownership and Firm Value in Emerging Markets
38 Pages Posted: 3 Mar 2000
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Equity Ownership and Firm Value in Emerging Markets
Date Written: August 5, 2002
Abstract
This paper investigates whether management ownership structures and large non-management blockholders are related to firm value across a broad sample of firms from emerging markets. I find that firm values are lower when control and cash flow rights of a firm's management group are separated, which indicates that the private benefits of control are reflected in the price paid by non-controlling shareholders. My results also suggest that large non-management blockholders can reduce these private benefits. The separation of management group ownership and control has a significantly more negative relation to value in countries with low shareholder protection, whereas large non-management blockholders have a significantly more positive relation. These results imply that private control benefits are discounted even more by minority shareholders where external shareholder protections are weak and that large non-management blockholders can act as a partial substitute for these missing institutional governance mechanisms.
JEL Classification: G32, G30
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