Stock market liberalization and operating performance at the firm level

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Mitton, Todd
• 署名单位: Brigham Young University
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-405X
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2005.09.001
• 发表日期: 2006
• 页码: 625-647
• 关键词: financial liberalization; investability; Foreign investors; operating performance

摘要

I use firm-specific measures of openness to foreign investors to study the impact of stock market liberalization on firm-level operating performance. In a sample of over 1, 100 firms from 28 countries, firms with stocks that are open to foreign investors experience higher growth, greater investment, greater profitability, greater efficiency, and lower leverage. Strategies to address potential endogeneity suggest that the observed relation reflects, at least in part, a causal effect of openness on operating performance. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.