Ownership Structure, Related Party Transactions, and Firm Valuation
Evidence from Indian Business Groups

Examines the effect of ownership structure and the disclosure of related party transactions on the firm valuation of group-affiliated firms in India.

Amrinder Khosa (Author), Kamran Ahmed (Author), Darren Henry (Author)

9781108492195, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 21 March 2019

188 pages
23.8 x 15.6 x 1.6 cm, 0.37 kg

Concentrated ownership is considered to be the best protection for shareholders in economies where legal protection is relatively weak. This book investigates and concludes, for Indian business groups, that concentrated-inside ownership provides opportunities for the expropriation of minority shareholders. While more concentrated direct ownership of controlling families results in a higher market value of equity, indirect ownership obtained through cross-holding provides incentives to extract private benefits and results in value loss. This finding requires the prompt attention of regulatory bodies, outside investors and other interested parties. This book examines the effect of ownership structure and disclosure of related-party transactions on firm valuation of group-affiliated firms in India, by using a sample of 317 listed firms comprising 1350 firm-year observations from 2008 to 2017. Well-accepted value-relevance models are employed to examine the effect of ownership rights on market value of equity and valuation effect of RP trading, asset transfer, investment and loan transactions.

List of tables
1. Introduction
2. The evolution of business groups, institutional framework in India and related party transactions
3. Theory and literature review
4. Hypotheses development
5. Research methods
6. Descriptive statistics
7. Empirical results
8. Additional tests
9. Implications of the study and conclusion
Appendix 1. List of sample firms
Appendix 2. List of business groups
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Business innovation [KJD], Business strategy [KJC], Business studies: general [KJB], Business & management [KJ], Finance [KFF], Economics, finance, business & management [K]