Investor Protection and Asset Prices

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Suleyman Basak

London Business School; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Georgy Chabakauri

London School of Economics and Political Science

M. Deniz Yavuz

Purdue University - Krannert School of Management

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Date Written: January 1, 2019

Abstract

Empirical evidence suggests that investor protection has significant effects on ownership concentration and asset prices. We develop a dynamic asset pricing model to address the empirical regularities and uncover some of the underlying mechanisms at play. Our model features a controlling shareholder who endogenously accumulates control over a firm, and diverts a fraction of its output. Better investor protection decreases stock holdings of controlling shareholders, increases stock mean-returns, and increases stock return volatilities when ownership concentration is sufficiently high, consistent with the related empirical evidence. The model also predicts that better protection increases interest rates and decreases the controlling shareholder's leverage.

Keywords: investor protection, asset pricing, controlling shareholders, expropriation, stock holdings

JEL Classification: G12, G32

Suggested Citation

Basak, Suleyman and Chabakauri, Georgy and Yavuz, M. Deniz, Investor Protection and Asset Prices (January 1, 2019). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2742961 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2742961

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M. Deniz Yavuz

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