Political relationships, global financing, and corporate transparency: Evidence from Indonesia

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Leuz, Christian; Oberholzer-Gee, Felix
• 署名单位: University of Pennsylvania; Harvard University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-405X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2005.06.006
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 411-439
• 关键词: cross listing; financing choices; Emerging markets; Asian financial crisis; Indonesia; disclosure

摘要

This study examines the role of political connections in firms' financing strategies and their long-run performance. We view political connections as an example for domestic arrangements which can reduce the benefits of global financing. Using data from Indonesia, we find that firms with strong political connections are less likely to have publicly traded foreign securities. As a result, estimates of the performance consequences of foreign financing are severely biased if value-creating domestic arrangements such as political relationships are ignored. Connections not only alter firms' financing strategies.. they also influence long-run performance. Tracking returns across several regimes, we show that firms have difficulty re-establishing connections with a new government when their patron falls from power, leading closely connected firms to underperform under the new regime and subsequently to increase their foreign financing. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.