“…Other studies justify the impact of industry features such as merger activity (Baker & Savasoglu, 2002;Moeller, Schlingemann, & Stulz, 2005), overseas subsidiaries (Dhawan, 1997;Owhoso, Gleason, Mathur, & Malgwi, 2002), and specific industries (Doidge, Karolyi, & Stulze, 2006;Espinoza & Kwon, 2009;Moerman, 2008) (Hales & Mollick, 2014;Karolyi, 2004;Lee, Chang, & Chen, 2015). The aforementioned literature provides a solid foundation to probe more inclusive features of firms that may influence the phenomenon of international financial integration.…”