Does Shareholder Value Orientation or Financial Market Liberalization Slow Down Korean Real Investment?

This study empirically tests whether the growing importance of shareholder value orientation and financial market liberalization can explain the decline in Korean real investment since the Asian financial crisis. First, the results indicate no negative relationship between increased payments to fina...

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Published in:The Review of radical political economics 2016-12, Vol.48 (4), p.633-660
Main Authors: Seo, Hwan-Joo, Kim, Han Sung, Kim, Joonil
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Economic crisis
Estimation
Financial support
Income
Investment
Investments
Liberalization
Markets
Payments
Political economy
Securities markets
Shareholders wealth
South Korea
Stockholders
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Summary:This study empirically tests whether the growing importance of shareholder value orientation and financial market liberalization can explain the decline in Korean real investment since the Asian financial crisis. First, the results indicate no negative relationship between increased payments to financial markets and the slowdown in Korean real investment. Second, the estimation results do not support the assertion that financial investment earnings crowd out Korean real investment. Third, an increase in the level of uncertainty from financial market liberalization reduces real investment by Korean firms. These results suggest that financial market liberalization explains the slowdown in Korean firm real investment for the 1990-2010 period better than shareholder value orientation does.
ISSN:0486-6134
1552-8502
DOI:10.1177/0486613415603159