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How does ownership structure affect capital structure and firm value? Recent evidence from East Asia1

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  • Nigel Driffield
  • Vidya Mahambare
  • Sarmistha Pal

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The present paper examines the effects of ownership structures on capital structure and firm valuation. It argues that the effects of separation of control from cash flow rights on capital structure and firm value also depend on the separation of control from management as well as on legal rules and enforcement defining investors’ protection. We obtain firm‐level panel data (three stage least squares, 3SLS) estimates from four of the East Asian countries worst affected by the last crisis. There is evidence that the general wisdom that higher control than cash flow rights may lower firm value may be reversed among owner‐managed family firms in the sample countries.

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  • Nigel Driffield & Vidya Mahambare & Sarmistha Pal, 2007. "How does ownership structure affect capital structure and firm value? Recent evidence from East Asia1," The Economics of Transition, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, vol. 15(3), pages 535-573, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:etrans:v:15:y:2007:i:3:p:535-573
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0351.2007.00291.x
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