Market discipline or rent extraction: Impacts of share trading by foreign institutional investors in different corporate governance and investor protection environments

2021 ◽  
pp. 101965
Author(s):  
Qiyu Zhang ◽  
Xiaoxiang Zhang ◽  
Ding Chen ◽  
Roger Strange
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Investor Protection ◽  
Market Discipline ◽  
Rent Extraction ◽  
Foreign Institutional Investors

Foreign Institutional Investors and Corporate Voluntary Disclosure Around the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 94 (5) ◽  
pp. 319-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Tsang ◽  
Fei Xie ◽  
Xiangang Xin
Keyword(s):  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Voluntary Disclosure ◽  
Home Country ◽  
Investor Protection ◽  
Institutional Ownership ◽  
Management Forecasts ◽  
Disclosure Requirements ◽  
The World ◽  
Foreign Institutional Investors ◽  
The Impact

ABSTRACT We examine the impact of foreign institutional investors on firms' voluntary disclosure practices measured by management forecasts. In a sample of 32 non-U.S. countries, we find that, on average, foreign institutional investments lead to improved voluntary disclosure, and their impact is larger than that of domestic institutional investors. These results are more pronounced when foreign institutional investors (1) are unfamiliar with the firm's home country, (2) have longer investment horizons, and (3) are from countries with stronger investor protection and disclosure requirements than the firm's home country. However, we also find some evidence of voluntary disclosure deterioration in firms with foreign institutional investors from countries with inferior disclosure requirements and securities regulations and with concentrated foreign institutional ownership. Overall, our results suggest that the relation between foreign institutional investors and voluntary disclosure is much richer and more complex than what has been documented for domestic institutional investors in the literature.

scholarly journals Does CSR Moderate the Relationship between Corporate Governance and Chinese Firm’s Financial Performance? Evidence from the Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) Firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rizwan Ali ◽  
Muhammad Safdar Sial ◽  
Talles Vianna Brugni ◽  
Jinsoo Hwang ◽  
Nguyen Vinh Khuong ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Foreign Institutional Investors ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

We have performed a focalized investigation to explore how corporate social responsibility (CSR) moderates the relationship between corporate governance and firms’ financial performance. We applied a panel regression to examine this relationship from a sample of 3400 Shanghai Stock Exchange (SSE) listed firms, based on yearly observations from 2009 to 2018. Our results show that the presence of female directors on the board is associated with improved firms’ performance and that corporate social responsibility (CSR) moderates this relation, thus indicating that sharing strategic decision-making with female board members revealed a better relationship between CSR and firms’ financial performance. Our findings showed that foreign institutional investors positively influenced firms’ financial performance and that CSR moderates the relation between foreign institutional shareholders and the firm’s financial performance. Supported by corporate governance theories, such as resource dependence and stakeholder theory, our results help to better understand the nexus among corporate governance, firms’ performance and corporate social responsibility. These findings are advantageous to government departments in emerging countries in terms of encouraging marketing practitioners and participants to implement CSR practices and change the attitude associated with CSR implications. This study highlighted the problems of the foreign institutional investors’ scheme, which was the main contribution to the financial market reform of China after 2003. These findings offer significant implications to corporate affairs executives and managers, practitioners, academicians, state officials, and policy-makers, and might provide China with the opportunity to extend its market liberalization to the global markets. This research also contributes to the existing literature, which investigates how CSR moderates the relationship between corporate governance and firms’ financial performance in the Chinese market context.

The influence of foreign institutional investors, institutional directors, and the share pledge ratio of directors on financial performance of tourism firms

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chien Mu Yeh
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Financial Performance ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Tobin’S Q ◽  
Tobin's Q ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Ordinary Least Square ◽  
Tourism Sector ◽  
Foreign Institutional Investors

Corporate governance is a critical component relevant to firm performance. In the tourism sector, corporate governance is an underexamined issue. The purpose of the current study is to bridge this gap by examining the influence of foreign institutional investors, institutional directors, and shares pledged by directors on tourism firms’ financial performance. Data are derived from listed tourism firms in Taiwan. Ordinary least square regressions and two-stage least square regressions are used to examine the hypotheses. Results show that the presence of foreign institutional investors and a low share pledge ratio of directors have significant effects on return on assets and Tobin’s Q. The presence of institutional directors has a positive effect on Tobin’s Q. Implications for owners, policy makers, and investors are discussed.

scholarly journals Effect of Corporate Governance on Institutional Investors’ Preferences: An Empirical Investigation in Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su-Lien Lu ◽  
Ying-Hui Li
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Regression Model ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Governance System ◽  
Piecewise Regression ◽  
Positive Effects ◽  
Panel Data Regression ◽  
Data Regression ◽  
Corporate Governance System ◽  
Foreign Institutional Investors

This study discusses the institutional investors’ shareholding base on corporate governance system in Taiwan. The sample was 4760 Taiwanese companies from 2005 to 2012. Then, this study established six hypotheses to investigate the effects of corporate governance on institutional investors’ shareholdings. The panel data regression model and piecewise regression model were adopted to determine whether six hypotheses are supported. For sensitive analysis, additional consideration was given on the basis of industrial category (electronics or nonelectronics), and the 2008–2010 global financial crises. This study discovered that a nonlinear relationship exists between the domestic institutional investors’ shareholdings. The managerial ownership ratio and blockholder ownership ratio have positive effects both on domestic and foreign institutional investors. However, domestic and foreign institutional investors have distinct opinions regarding independent director ratios. Finally, the corporate governance did not improve institutional investors’ shareholdings during financial crisis periods; instead, they paid more attention to firm profits or other characteristics.

scholarly journals Earnings quality, foreign investor and dividends

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong Hwa Lee
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Earnings Management ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Earnings Quality ◽  
Foreign Ownership ◽  
Foreign Investor ◽  
Foreign Institutional Investors ◽  
Dividend Increases

This study discovers the relation between corporate governance factors and earnings quality and finds that increases in dividends and foreign ownership deter earnings management. The author shows that dividend increases and foreign ownership enhance earnings quality, but they appear to be substitutes in that role. In other words, as foreign ownership increases, the influence of dividends in increasing earnings quality decreases. Improving transparency through dividend increases and monitoring by foreign institutional investors are substitutes in preventing earnings management.

scholarly journals Corporate Governance and Stock Price informativeness: Evidence from an Emerging Market

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 593-605
Author(s):  
Muhammad Shahid Rasheed ◽  
Shahzad Kouser
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Stock Price ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Investor Protection ◽  
Cash Flows ◽  
Governance Mechanism ◽  
Price Informativeness ◽  
Controlling Shareholders ◽  
Stock Price Informativeness

Emerging markets usually have weaker legal and governance environment. The weaker enforcement of investor protection laws leads to a poor information environment. Using data of all the listed non-financial firms from Pakistan stock exchange (PSX), we document the relationship between corporate governance variables and stock price informativeness. The results from two-stage least squares (2SLS) reveal that controlling shareholders in the form of block holding plays an effective role in improving informativeness. Due to the presence of these block ownership, the institutional investors remain largely short term investors and act passively. This behavior of institutional investors encourages managers to extract more cash flows leading to higher synchronicity. These findings suggest market regulators develop such a corporate governance mechanism that not only ensures investor protection but also advise firms to reduce information asymmetry by better disclosure and transparency. More specifically, in the Pakistani context, traditional corporate governance mechanisms through board room regulations may not improve informativeness, and regulators need to regulate the ownership regulations, including family ownership and controlling shareholders.

Investor Protection and the Long-Run Performance of Activism

2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-100 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pouyan Foroughi ◽  
Namho Kang ◽  
Gideon Ozik ◽  
Ronnie Sadka
Keyword(s):  
Corporate Governance ◽  
Institutional Investors ◽  
Agency Costs ◽  
Investor Protection ◽  
Target Selection ◽  
Organizational Characteristics ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Protection Structures

Using a parsimonious measure of investor protection constructed from fund organizational characteristics, this paper documents that companies targeted by activists with better investor protection structures outperform those targeted by those with poor investor protection structures by roughly 10% per year. The outperformance is observed only for active targets for which Schedule 13Ds are filed, not for passive Schedule 13G investments, indicating that the effect is not explained by a superior target-selection ability. The evidence suggests that funds with better investor protection achieve increased profitability and valuation ratio of their targets by reducing agency costs, improving corporate governance, and collaborating with other large institutional investors.

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