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Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries?

NBER Working Paper Series, 2009-04, p.14877

Copyright National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. Apr 2009 ;ISSN: 0898-2937 ;DOI: 10.3386/w14877

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  • Title:
    Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries?
  • Author: Mueller, Holger ; Giroud, Xavier
  • Subjects: Boards of directors ; Business combinations ; Competition ; Corporate Finance ; Corporate governance ; Earnings management ; Economic theory ; Hypotheses ; Return on assets
  • Is Part Of: NBER Working Paper Series, 2009-04, p.14877
  • Description: By reducing the threat of a hostile takeover, business combination (BC) laws weaken corporate governance and increase the opportunity for managerial slack. Consistent with the notion that competition mitigates managerial slack, we find that while firms in non-competitive industries experience a significant drop in operating performance after the laws' passage, firms in competitive industries experience no significant effect. When we examine which agency problem competition mitigates, we find evidence in support of a "quiet-life" hypothesis. Input costs, wages, and overhead costs all increase after the laws' passage, and only so in non-competitive industries. Similarly, when we conduct event studies around the dates of the first newspaper reports about the BC laws, we find that while firms in non-competitive industries experience a significant stock price decline, firms in competitive industries experience a small and insignificant stock price impact.
  • Publisher: Cambridge: National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 0898-2937
    DOI: 10.3386/w14877
  • Source: Alma/SFX Local Collection
    ProQuest Central
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