Investor Protection and Corporate Valuation
Investor Protection and Corporate Valuation ArXiv ID: ssrn-313475 “View on arXiv” Authors: Unknown Abstract We present a model of the effects of legal protection of minority shareholders and of cash-flow ownership by a controlling shareholder on the valuation of firms Keywords: minority shareholder protection, cash flow ownership, controlling shareholder, corporate valuation, agency theory, Equities Complexity vs Empirical Score Math Complexity: 4.5/10 Empirical Rigor: 3.0/10 Quadrant: Philosophers Why: The paper is a theoretical corporate finance model with standard optimization and equilibrium derivation, scoring moderate math complexity, but lacks code, backtests, or detailed empirical data implementation, resulting in low empirical rigor. flowchart TD A["Research Goal: How do minority shareholder protection and cash-flow ownership by a controlling shareholder affect corporate valuation?"] --> B["Methodology: Theoretical Model Development"] B --> C["Data Inputs: Firm-level valuation metrics, Legal protection indices, Ownership concentration data"] C --> D["Computational Process: Regression analysis and equilibrium modeling of agency costs"] D --> E["Key Findings: Stronger legal protection and higher controlling ownership increase firm valuation, but effects interact nonlinearly"]