The Cost of Capital of Cross-Listed Firms

37 Pages Posted: 15 Jun 2001

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Kees C. G. Koedijk

Tilburg University - Department of Finance

Mathijs A. van Dijk

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)

Date Written: October 2002

Abstract

This paper analyzes the cost of capital of firms with foreign equity listings. Our purpose is to shed light on the question whether international and domestic asset pricing models yield a different estimate of the cost of capital for cross-listed stocks. We distinguish between (i) the multifactor ICAPM of Solnik (1983) and Sercu (1980) including both the global market portfolio and exchange rate risk premia, and (ii) the single factor domestic CAPM. We test for the significance of the cost of capital differential in a sample of 336 cross-listed stocks from nine countries in the period 1980-1999. Our hypothesis is that the cost of capital differential is substantial for firms with international listings, as these are often large multinationals with a strong international orientation. We find that the asset pricing models yield a significantly different estimate of the cost of capital for only 12 percent of the cross-listed companies. The size of the cost of capital differential is around 50 basis points for the U.S., 80 basis points for the U.K., and 100 basis points for France.

Keywords: Cross-listings, cost of equity capital, foreign exchange exposure

Suggested Citation

Koedijk, Kees G. and van Dijk, Mathijs A., The Cost of Capital of Cross-Listed Firms (October 2002). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=273745 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.273745

Kees G. Koedijk

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Mathijs A. Van Dijk (Contact Author)

Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) ( email )

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