Investor Protection and Ownership Decentralization

摘要 : In this paper, on the premise that the expropriation of corporate assets by controlling shareholders would generate a residual loss, we studied how the laws of investor protection influenced on the decentralization of corporate ownership, the penalty and the cost of litigation. There are several interested conclusions we reached. At first, the effective protection of minority shareholders will lead to the decentralization of ownership, which is irrelevant to whether there is litigation cost or who should pay the cost. Second, if litigation costs remain unchanged, effective minority shareholder protection laws will evolve along a self-reinforcing path. On the other hand, if the penalty remains unchanged, effective minority shareholder protection laws will cause litigation costs to increase over time. These conclusions are irrelevant to who pays the litigation cost. Last, pay the cost by minority shareholders or controlling shareholders will cause litigation costs to increase or decrease with the penalty.