How Does Corporate Governance Risk at Home Affect Investment Choices Abroad?

Woochan Kim (), Taeyoon Sung and Shang-Jin Wei

No 13721, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: Disparity between control and ownership rights gives rise to the risk of tunneling by the controlling shareholder, and is prevalent in many emerging market economies and present in some developed countries. At the same time, international investors come from different countries whose home markets are characterized by varying degrees of control-ownership disparity. This paper studies whether this difference in investors' home countries affects their portfolio choice in an emerging market. It combines two unique data sets on ownership and control in business groups, and investor-stock level foreign investment in Korea. A key finding is that, investors from low-disparity countries disfavor high-disparity stocks in Korea, but investors from high-disparity countries are indifferent. Moreover, investors from low-disparity countries became averse to disparity only after the Asian financial crisis. These results suggest that the nature of corporate governance in international investors' home countries affects their portfolio choice abroad, and therefore that these investors should not be lumped together in the analyses of their portfolio choice.

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Date: 2008-01
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Published as Woochan Kim, Taeyoon Sung, Shang-Jin Wei Does corporate governance risk at home affect investment choices abroad? ☆ Journal of International Economics, Volume 85, Issue 1, September 2011, Pages 25–41

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