post too much through lobbying by corporate insiders. With financial globalization, national disclosure laws can have wide …

impact of financial globalization has been remarkably limited. I argue that country attributes are still critical to … ability of a country to take advantage of financial globalization. The twin agency problems help explain why the impact of … financial globalization has been limited and why financial globalization can lead to capital flight and financial crises. The …

This paper examines the impact of globalization on the cost of equity capital. We argue that the cost of equity capital … decreases because of globalization for two important reasons. First, the expected return that investors require to invest in … prediction that globalization decreases the cost of capital, but the documented effects are lower than theory leads us to expect …