Has new york become less competitive in global markets?
Subtitle: evaluating foreign listing choices over time
By: Craig Doidge, G. Andrew Karolyi, Rene M. Stulz
Contributors: Karolyi, Andrew G.; Stulz, Rene M.; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 13079; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 13079.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource]
Description: "We study the determinants and consequences of cross-listings on the New York and London stock exchanges from 1990 to 2005.  This investigation enables us to evaluate the relative benefits of New York and London exchange listings and to assess whether these relative benefits have changed over time, perhaps as a result of the passage of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of Congress (SOX) in 2002.  We find that cross-listings have been falling on U.S.  exchanges as well as on the Main Market in London.  This decline in cross-listings is explained by changes in firm characteristics rather than by changes in the benefits of cross-listings.  We show that, after controlling for firm characteristics, there is no deficit in cross-listing counts on U.S.  exchanges related to SOX.  Investigating the cross-listing premium from 1990 to 2005, we find that there is a significant premium for U.S.  exchange listings every year, that the premium has not fallen significantly in recent years, that it persists even when allowing for unobservable firm characteristics, and that there is a permanent premium in event time.  In contrast, there is no premium for London listings for any year.  Cross-listing in the U.S.  leads firms to increase their capital-raising activity at home and abroad while a London listing has no such impact.  Our evidence is consistent with the theory that an exchange listing in New York has unique governance benefits for foreign firms.  These benefits have not been seriously eroded by SOX and cannot be replicated through a London listing"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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