American Depository Receipts: The Long-Term U.S. Investor Experience

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Hendrik Bessembinder

W.P. Carey School of Business

Te-Feng Chen

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Goeun Choi

Loyola Marymount University - College of Business Administration

K.C. John Wei

Hong Kong Polytechnic University

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Date Written: January 8, 2021

Abstract

We study long-run outcomes to those who invested in non-U.S. stocks through American Depository Receipts (ADRs) between August 1954 and September 2020, with particular attention to ADRs associated with Chinese firms. Overall, ADRs improved their investors’ wealth by $1.03 trillion, as compared to a Treasury-bill benchmark. More than a third of this amount was attributable to ADRs associated with Chinese firms. A value-weighted portfolio of ADRs associated with Chinese firms earned 1.64% per month since the first Chinese ADR was created in 1993, as compared to 0.89% per month for the overall U.S. stock market over the same period. These data are relevant to current policy discussions focused on Chinese firms listed in the U.S.

Suggested Citation

Bessembinder, Hendrik (Hank) and Chen, Te-Feng and Choi, Goeun and Wei, Kuo-Chiang (John), American Depository Receipts: The Long-Term U.S. Investor Experience (January 8, 2021). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3762706 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3762706

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Goeun Choi

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