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Expropriation risk by block holders, institutional quality and expected stock returns
Hearn, Bruce ; Phylaktis, K. ; Piesse, J.
Hearn, Bruce
Phylaktis, K.
Piesse, J.
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2017-08
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© 2017 Elsevier. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)
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We study the asset pricing implications arising from imperfect investor protection using a new governance measure. This is defined as the product of institutional quality in a country and the proportion of free float shares, which captures the impact of controlling block holders. Using monthly returns of 4756 blue chip firms from 50 international equity markets for 13 years, we show through tests of variants of the augmented-CAPM, that a two factor CAPM augmented with a factor mimicking portfolio based on our new investor protection metric yields the highest explanatory power, especially for markets that exhibit true variation in ownership types.
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Hearn B, Phylaktis K and Piesse J (2017) Expropriation risk by block holders, institutional quality and expected stock returns. Journal of Corporate Finance. 45: 122-149.
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