Essays in Banking and International Corporate Governance

In the third essay, we find that cash ratios for chaebol (business group) firms are lower than for non-chaebol firms for the 1991--2000 period. We do however find that there is a shift in the degree of bank power over the last decade. After the financial crisis in 1997, the interest differential charged to chaebol firms is significantly higher than the earlier period, suggesting extraction of rents against chaebol client firms by main banks. We also provide the dark side of internal capital markets as a competing explanation where independent firms with a more focused line of business are more responsive in investment to good investment opportunities, while this is not the case for diversified chaebol firms.

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

• Park, Kwangwoo

Contributors dc:contributor

• George Pennacchi

• Economics, Finance

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3101945

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87430