Emerging Markets and Financing with Preferred Stocks: The Case of Pacific Rim Countries

Abstract

Points out that preference shares are much more heavily used in emerging economies than in advanced ones to finance new investment projects and develops a mathematical model to show the conditions under which companies are willing to issue them at a price which will attract investors. Outlines the tax systems in Taiwan, South Korea and New Zealand and uses the model to explain why companies in the former two countries issue preference share but New Zealand firms to not.