Dividends and Expropriation

49 Pages Posted: 19 Apr 2000

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Mara Faccio

Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, Purdue University; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

Larry H.P. Lang

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Finance

Leslie Young

The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) - Department of Finance

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Date Written: July 31, 2000

Abstract

In Western Europe and East Asia, capital markets require higher dividends from corporations tightly affiliated (at the 20% level of control) to a group and, within a group, from corporations whose controlling shareholder has a lower ratio O/C of ownership to control rights. For loosely-affiliated corporations (whose controlling shareholder holds between 10% and 20% of control rights), dividends are positively related to O/C, reflecting expropriation not contained by capital markets. Such corporations comprise 2.94% of European corporations, but 15.44 % of Asian corporations. In our 9 Asian economies, the 11 largest groups at the 10% level comprise 53.75% of all corporations and 84.58% of loosely-affiliated corporations, so most expropriation occurs here. Dividend are higher in Europe than in Asia; having multiple large shareholders increases dividends in Europe but decreases them in Asia.

JEL Classification: G3, G35

Suggested Citation

Faccio, Mara and Lang, Hsien Ping Larry and Young, Leslie S.F., Dividends and Expropriation (July 31, 2000). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=222428 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.222428

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