Two Essays in Corporate Finance and Investment

"The second essay, ""Dual-class Stocks: Motivation and Effects on Firm Valuation, Corporate Governance, Capital Structure, and Payout Policy"", addresses several issues in dual-class stocks: why and when firms create dual-class stocks, and how the creation of dual-class stocks affects shareholders' wealth, corporate governance, capital structure, and payout policy. The results suggest that managers adopt the dual-class equity structure to raise additional outside equity capital without losing their control of the firms, rather than an antitakover measure. Adopting dual-class structure has a negative effect on shareholders' wealth that is observable only over a long horizon of time after the change. Dual-class firms tend to have board of directors that provide less effective monitoring roles for outside shareholders even before the change. They tend to keep the composition after the dual-class creation. The results suggest that over a long horizon of time, dual-class firms tend to use equity more than debt for their external capital source. No significant difference in dividend payout policy between dual-class firms and their industry and size matched firms is found."

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Finance

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Kim, Joonghyuk

Contributors dc:contributor

• Narasimhan Jegadeesh

• Economics, Finance

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3023093

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87426