This paper attempts to investigate linkages that a firm affiliated in a business group utilizes to prosper even in adverse financial environmental conditions. The study focuses on identifying the impact from business group association on cost of debt of an affiliated firm utilizing network...

We examine the knock-on effect of credit rating changes in Korean Chaebol. We show that credit rating changes of chaebol-affiliated firm share the effect of credit rating change with related affiliates because: (1) chaebol affiliates share their internal capital markets and (2) chaebol...

This study examines the impacts of business group affiliation, ownership disparity, and corporate governance on cash holdings and the value of excess cash of firms, using business group data from Korea, where such organizations are called “chaebols.” We find that Korean chaebol-affiliated...