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An Empirical Assessment Of Empirical Corporate Finance, Jeffrey L. Coles, Zhichuan Frank Li
An Empirical Assessment Of Empirical Corporate Finance, Jeffrey L. Coles, Zhichuan Frank Li
Business Publications
We empirically evaluate 20 prominent contributions to a broad range of areas in the empirical corporate finance literature. We assemble the necessary data and then apply a single, simple econometric method, the connected-groups approach of Abowd, Karmarz, and Margolis (1999), to appraise the extent to which prevailing empirical specifications explain variation of the dependent variable, differ in composition of fit arising from various classes of independent variables, and exhibit resistance to omitted variable bias and other endogeneity problems. In particular, we identify and estimate the role of observed and unobserved firm- and manager-specific characteristics in determining primary features of corporate …
Ceo Power, Corporate Social Responsibility, And Firm Value: A Test Of Agency Theory, Zhichuan Li
Ceo Power, Corporate Social Responsibility, And Firm Value: A Test Of Agency Theory, Zhichuan Li
Business Publications
Purpose
The purpose of this paper is to explore whether firms with powerful chief executive officers (CEOs) tend to invest (more) in corporate social responsibility (CSR) activities as the over-investment hypothesis based on classical agency theory predicts.
Design/methodology/approach
This paper tests an alternative hypothesis that if CSR investment is indeed an agency cost like the over-investment hypothesis suggests, then those activities may destroy firm value.
Findings
Using CEO pay slice (Bebchuk et al., 2011), CEO tenure, and CEO duality to measure CEO power, the authors show that CEO power is negatively correlated with firm’s choice to engage in CSR …
Private Equity Firm Heterogeneity And Cross-Border Acquisitions, Isaac Holloway, Hoan Soo Lee, Tao Shen
Private Equity Firm Heterogeneity And Cross-Border Acquisitions, Isaac Holloway, Hoan Soo Lee, Tao Shen
Business Publications
We study the global competition among private equity(PE)buy out firms. Using a detailed database of PE firm characteristics,we investigate how PE firm heterogeneity across strategy and performance affects the volume of global acquisitions. A one-standard-deviation increase in a firm’s average internal rate of return is associated with an approximate doubling of the number of deals in any given country. We also find that transaction costs associated with geographic, cultural, and administrative distance matter to different degrees across PE firms, and that these differences are related to the strategic profiles of the firms.
Corporate Governance And Executive Compensation For Corporate Social Responsibility, Zhichuan Li
Corporate Governance And Executive Compensation For Corporate Social Responsibility, Zhichuan Li
Business Publications
We link the corporate governance literature in financial economics to the agency cost perspective of corporate social responsibility (CSR) to derive theoretical predictions about the relationship between corporate governance and the existence of executive compensation incentives for CSR. We test our predictions using novel executive compensation contract data, and find that firms with more shareholder-friendly corporate governance are more likely to provide compensation to executives linked to firm social performance outcomes. Also, providing executives with direct incentives for CSR is an effective tool to increase firm social performance. The findings provide evidence identifying corporate governance as a determinant of managerial …
Endogeneity In Ceo Power: A Survey And Experiment, Zhichuan Li
Endogeneity In Ceo Power: A Survey And Experiment, Zhichuan Li
Business Publications
The endogeneity problem has always been one, if not the only, obstacle to understanding the true relationship between different aspects of empirical corporate finance. Variables are typically endogenous, instruments are scarce, and causality relations are complicated. As the first attempt to summarize different econometric methods that are commonly used to address endogeneity concerns in the context of corporate governance, we explore the relation between CEO power and firm performance, as an experiment, to illustrate how these methods can be used to mitigate the endogeneity problem and by how much. After carefully dealing with the endogeneity issues, we find strong evidence …
From Share Value To Shared Value: Exploring The Role Of Accountants In Developing Integrated Reporting In Practice, Delphine Gibassier, Michelle Rodrigue, Diane-Laure Arjaliès
From Share Value To Shared Value: Exploring The Role Of Accountants In Developing Integrated Reporting In Practice, Delphine Gibassier, Michelle Rodrigue, Diane-Laure Arjaliès
Business Publications
The corporate reporting landscape has evolved in the last 20 years from financial reporting to sustainability reporting to “integrated reporting.” The corporate reporting history abounds with different attempts at integrating sustainability accounting with financial accounting (e.g., the Corporate Report 1975 and the “Triple Bottom Line” concept) and thereby attempting to report in an integrated manner. The first corporate integrated reports appeared in 2002, but the new trend remained in the margins. Since 2010, the IIRC (International Integrated Reporting Council) has led the work on building the first Integrated Reporting (IR) framework, published in December 2013. The accounting profession has played …