• The Korean Journal of Financial Management
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• v.20 no.1
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• pp.331-339
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• 2003

We investigate long-run relationships between industry relatedness, operating performance, and stock performance after equity carve-outs(ECO). For homo-industry ECOs, 12-month CAR of subsidiary firms is 26.52% and significantly positive at the 5% level and BHAR is 22.19%. For hetero-industry ECOs, subsidiary 12-month CAR and BHAR are 35.14% and 39.64%, respectively, which are significant at the 1% level. On the other hand, long-run performance of parent firms is insignificant for any sub-sample. Excess operating performance of subsidiaries is significantly positive at the first year and insignificant thereafter. The lower the offering ratio is and the better the operating performance is, the better the subsidiary stock performance is. Unlike IPOs and SEOs, shareholders of subsidiaries benefit from ECOs and parent stocks do not underperform. Hetero-industry ECOs improving corporate focus are more effective restructurings than homo-industry ECOs.