The study seeks to examine the effect of equity ownership structure on firm financial performance in South Korea. I focus on the role of two main dimensions of the ownership structure: Ownership concentration (i.e., the distribution of shares owned by majority shareholders) and identity of owners (especially, foreign investors and institutional investors). Using panel data for South Korea in 20...

This study examines the relation between ownership concentration and performance of initial public offerings (IPOs) in Thailand during 1989-1993. Ownership concentration plays a crucial role in emerging capital markets such as Thailand and can significantly affect IPO performance. Several testable hypotheses are constructed from the IPO literature to examine short-term and long-term IPO perform...

With the growth of capital market, the shareholding structure of companies has become more complex. Direct ownership is easily recognizable through companies’ shareholders information, however with the formation of cross shareholding among companies, a kind of indirect and complex shareholding has emerged which is not observable. The primary owners (original owners) can take over other companie...

Despite the extraordinarily high ownership concentration widely observed in emerging market firms as a result of institutional voids, there is little research on how this high ownership concentration affects the exporting behavior of emerging market firms. From principal–agent and institutional perspectives, we hypothesize that high ownership concentration has a negative relationship with expor...

Abstract This study analyzes the effect of ownership concentration and identity on probability seasoned equity offerings (SEOs) in German stock market. In Germany, issues require shareholder approval by a supermajority vote 75% at meetings. contributes to literature testing non‐monotonic SEO probability. While low levels can be expected increase probabilities, for example, through signaling eff...