This paper examines how investors perceive business group membership in Korea during the COVID-19 pandemic. Stock price performance analysis reveals evidence of a time-varying and heterogeneous value of affiliation: investors discount business group affiliation during a market collapse, but are...

The authors show that there is a negative relationship between economic policy uncertainty (EPU) and firm overinvestment using Korean data from 2007 to 2016. Since Jensen (1986) shows that a firm's free cash flow is an important factor of overinvestment, the authors examine how free cash flow...

This study examines capital allocation efficiency in the business group when parent firms experience adverse shocks of financial conditions. We exploit a quasi-experiment in China, the mandatory dividend of a state-owned business group in 2007, to conduct difference-in-differences estimation,...