R-squared around the world
Subtitle: new theory and new tests
By: Li Jin, Stewart C. Myers.
Contributors: Myers, Stewart C.; National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series ;; working paper 10453; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) ;; working paper no. 10453.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Investment analysis.; Stockholders -- Attitudes.
Description: "Morck, Yeung and Yu (MYY, 2000) show that R2 and other measures of stock market synchronicity are higher in countries with less developed financial systems and poorer corporate governance.  MYY and Campbell, Lettau, Malkiel and Xu (2001) also find a secular decline in R2 in the United States over the last century.  We develop a model that explains these results and generates additional testable hypotheses.  The model shows how control rights and information affect the division of risk-bearing between inside managers and outside investors.  Insiders capture part of the firm's operating cash flows.  The limits to capture are based on outside investors' perception of the value of the firm.  The firm is not completely transparent, however.  Lack of transparency shifts firm-specific risk to insiders and reduces the amount of firm-specific risk absorbed by outside investors.  Our model also predicts that opaque' stocks are more likely to crash, that is, to deliver large negative returns.  Crashes occur when insiders have to absorb too much firm-specific bad news and decide to give up.' We test these predictions using stock returns from all major stock markets from 1990 to 2001.  We find strong positive relationships between R2 and several measures of opaqueness.  These measures also explain the frequency of large negative returns"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
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