The Role of Home Institutions in Shaping Firm Ownership Structures

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Brief Overview

Using data on 11 million global ownership relations, I show how institutional contexts and home-country experience shape firms’ ownership structures on foreign operations. Institutional mismatch drives firms to adopt complex ownership to manage risk.

Author

• Jonas Geus, University of Munich (LMU)