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Title: Foreign Equity Investment Restrictions, Capital Flight, and Shareholder Wealth Maximization

Author(s): René M Stulz

Publication Date: July 1995

Keyword(s): Asset Pricing and Investment Restrictions

Programme Area(s): Financial Economics

Abstract: This paper provides a theory of foreign equity investment restrictions. We consider a model where the demand function for domestic shares differs between domestic and foreign investors because of dead-weight costs in holding domestic and foreign securities that depend on the country of residence of investors. We show that domestic entrepreneurs maximize firm value by discriminating between domestic and foreign investors. The model implies that countries benefiting from capital flight have binding ownership restrictions such that foreign investors pay a higher price for shares than domestic investors. The empirical implications of this theory are supported by evidence from Switzerland.

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Stulz, R. 1995. 'Foreign Equity Investment Restrictions, Capital Flight, and Shareholder Wealth Maximization'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=1208