The Effect of Investment Inefficiency on Expected Returns

The majority of Indian firms have a promoter and family-owner-dominated ownership structure; therefore, the agency problem prevailing in such a setting would be the conflict of interest between the majority and minority shareholders. This motivated us to examine the adverse effect of not investing a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of emerging market finance 2023-09, Vol.22 (3), p.272-296
Hauptverfasser: Chacko, Jains P., Padmakumari, Lakshmi
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:The majority of Indian firms have a promoter and family-owner-dominated ownership structure; therefore, the agency problem prevailing in such a setting would be the conflict of interest between the majority and minority shareholders. This motivated us to examine the adverse effect of not investing at the level implied by the firms’ characteristics, termed investment inefficiency, on the ex-ante measure of expected returns, the implied cost of capital. Our study finds a positive relationship between investment inefficiency and expected returns in the baseline results estimated using pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) and the robustness results estimated using a two-step generalized method of moments (GMM). The sample of the study consists of listed firms in India from 2016 to 2021. JEL Codes: G11, G31
ISSN:0972-6527
0973-0710
DOI:10.1177/09726527231165365