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On the Fortunes of Stock Exchanges and Their Reversals
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On the Fortunes of Stock Exchanges and Their Reversals

Evidence from Foreign Listings

ECB, 2013

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Editorial Rating

7

Qualities

  • Analytical
  • Innovative
  • Background

Recommendation

As capital flows around the globe, it has become simpler for investors to buy securities in almost any of the world’s stock exchanges. This raises the question of why companies continue to seek secondary listings outside their home countries. Finance professors Nuno Fernandes and Mariassunta Giannetti undertook a broad study that offers some new insights into why and where firms cross-list their shares, and what roles governance rules and investor protection play in those choices. Their paper is rigorously academic in tone, and getAbstract recommends it to executives, regulators and policy makers with an advanced technical interest in the topic.

Take-Aways

  • Firms seek to tap worldwide capital flows by offering, or cross-listing, their shares on foreign stock exchanges. Some 10% of global companies maintain cross-listings outside their home markets.
  • The United States and the United Kingdom are homes to the only truly global stock exchanges, with a 60% share of all foreign listings.
  • Regulations and investor protections tend to boost the appeal of listing on foreign exchanges to companies.

About the Author

Nuno Fernandes is a professor of finance at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mariassunta Giannetti is a professor of finance at the Stockholm School of Economics.