Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/77446 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies Working Paper No. 10/2013
Publisher: 
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva
Abstract: 
Countries with weaker domestic institutions hold fewer foreign assets and exhibit concentrated corporate ownership. An equilibrium business cycle model of international capital flows with corporate governance frictions between outside investors and insiders explains both phenomena. Investment dynamics under insider control leads relative dividend and labor income for outsiders to be more negatively correlated in countries with weaker institutions. Consequently, outsiders hold more domestic assets to hedge labor income risk. I provide empirical evidence on this hedging demand. Concentrated ownership arises because international diversification through the sale of domestic assets by insiders is penalized by lower stock market valuation.
Subjects: 
home bias
institutional quality
corporate governance
JEL: 
F21
F41
G15
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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