Corporate Governance and the Home Bias

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Lee Pinkowitz

Georgetown University - Department of Finance

Rohan Williamson

Georgetown University - McDonough School of Business

René M. Stulz

Ohio State University (OSU) - Department of Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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Date Written: December 2001

Abstract

In most countries, many of the largest corporations are controlled by large shareholders. We show that, under reasonable assumptions, this stylized fact implies that portfolio holdings of U.S. investors should exhibit a home bias in equilibrium. We construct an estimate of the world portfolio of shares available to investors who are not controlling shareholders. This available world portfolio differs sharply from the world market portfolio. In regressions explaining the portfolio weights of U.S. investors, the world portfolio of available shares has a positive significant coefficient but the world market portfolio has no additional explanatory power. This result holds when we control for country characteristics.

Suggested Citation

Pinkowitz, Lee Foster and Williamson, Rohan G. and Stulz, Rene M., Corporate Governance and the Home Bias (December 2001). NBER Working Paper No. w8680, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=294729

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