scholarly journals Corporate governance and investments

2014 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 294-311
Author(s):  
Wei Wang

We investigate the impact of corporate governance on physical and R&D investments in a Seemingly Unrelated Regressing (SUR) system. Marginal q’s are estimated using firm fundamental information for physical and R&D investments separately. We find that takeover pressure boosts both physical and R&D investments, public pension funds ownership has a U-shaped relation with physical investment, and greater director ownership is associated with lower physical investment and higher R&D investment. As far as investment distortions are concerned, takeover pressure mitigates the free cash flow problem and exacerbates the debt overhang problem, while public pension funds stockholding and director ownership alleviates the debt overhang for physical investment, and R&D investment, respectively.

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Muhammad Fajri

The aim of this research is to provide empirical evidence on the impact of good corporate governance, free cash flow, and leverage ratio on earnings management. Good corporate governance is measured by audit committee’s size, the proportion of independent commissioners, institutional ownership, and managerial ownership. Discretionary accrual is the proxy of earning management. This research used 28 consumer goods companies listed in Indonesia Stock Exchange from 2016 to 2018. Data were analyzed using panel data with random effect model. Based on the result of analysis concluded that all components of good corporate governance (audit committee’s size, the proportion of independent commissioners, institutional ownership, and managerial ownership), have no significant effect on earnings management, on other hand leverage ratio has a negative effect and no significant on earning management, and free cash flow has a positve and no significant effect on earnings management


2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 76-84 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Miguel de Oliveira ◽  
Ricardo Pereira Câmara Leal ◽  
Vinicio de Souza Almeida

We do not find any consistent evidence that the presence of the largest Brazilian pension funds as relevant shareholders is associated to higher corporate governance scores by public Brazilian companies. Even though companies with institutional investors as relevant shareholders presented a higher average corporate governance score than other companies, they were also larger and had greater past profitability than other companies, which are common attributes of firms with better corporate governance according to the literature. The impact of Brazilian institutional investors on the corporate governance quality of their investees is either negligible or cannot be captured by the proxies we employed. Finally, we note that these two pension funds may represent the policy and political views of the incumbent Brazilian government and that the actions of their board appointees may or not reflect what is understood as good corporate governance practices.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
Yousef Shahwan

This study aims to investigate empirically how the characteristics of the firm; the audit quality and the corporate governance impact the management of earnings. The population employed in this study is industrial firms listed on the Amman Stock Exchange between 2017 and 2019. The method of sampling employed in this study is purposive sampling. 39 firms are analyzed, with 117 items of data being achieved. Also, this study applies statistical testing via multiple regression. The findings show that sales growth, free cash flow, financial leverage, and return on assets all have an impact on earnings management. Meanwhile, other factors such as audit quality, firm size, audit committee, the board size, institutional ownership, and managerial ownership, have not to impact on earnings management.


2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 71-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohammad Rajon Meah ◽  
Nasir Uddin Chaudhory

This article aims to investigate the impact of corporate governance through board size, female directors, family duality and director ownership on firm’s profitability in Bangladesh. It’s a quantitative study on 110 manufacturing firms listed in Dhaka Stock Exchange. Multivariate pooled Ordinary Least Square (OLS) regressions are applied on 512 sample-year observations from the year 2013 to 2017 to test the hypotheses in the study. On one side, the results reveal that larger board size and female directors on board are positively associated with firm’s profitability, which in turns helps to enhance firm’s profitability. On the other side, it is also found in the results that percentage of shares held by the directors and family duality are negatively related to firm’s profitability and thus reduces firm performance. The outcomes of this study advocate the policymakers to formulate a policy by addressing the percentage of shares held by the directors to be kept at a certain level.


Wahana ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-99
Author(s):  
Djaja Perdana ◽  
Hasan Subagyo

The level of corporate investment inefficiency is closely related to the effectiveness of corporate governance practices implemented by the largest shareholders and board of directors. This paper discusses empirical research that investigates the impact of the largest shareholders and board size on investment inefficiency with free cash flow as a moderating variable. This study uses a sample of 152 public companies registered in Indonesia’s capital market for the fiscal year ended on December 31, 2014 to 2018. This study uses a multiple regression method with the Ordinary Least Square (OLS) approach. This study find that the largest shareholders and board size are significantly negative impact on investment inefficiency, but the free cash flow doesn’t moderate the influence of board size on investment inefficiency.


2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 742-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander H. Gnutti ◽  
John D. Martin ◽  
J. Douglas Ramsey

We analyze voting support for shareholder sponsored corporate governance proposals. Specifically, we study the impact of institutional share ownership, board structure, firm size, historical share performance, and proposal sponsor on the proportion of yes votes received. We use data from 253 shareholder proposals that came to a vote in 2013 for our analysis. Among our findings are the following: (1) pension funds sponsored 14 of the 20 proposals receiving the highest level of voting support while individuals and labor unions sponsored 16 of the 20 proposals receiving the lowest voting support; (2) firms with a classified board received higher proposal support than those without a classified board; (3) firms with a higher percentage of institutional ownership received greater voter support, and (4) firm size was inversely related to voting support


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