We consider Korea and Japan in East Asia as the representative country of each of the two groups: high- versus low-depreciation economies during the 2008 global financial crisis. Although the two countries have geographical and industrial similarities, their exchange rate change during the...

This paper demonstrates that group-affiliated firms have financial attributes that are different from those of stand-alone firms and suggests that these differences are consistent with ex-post consequences of receiving equity investment (EI) in business groups. Therefore, intra-group EI serves...