The effect of changes in ownership structure on performance: evidence from the thrift industry

Rebel A. Cole () and Hamid Mehran ()

No 96-6, Finance and Economics Discussion Series from Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)

Abstract: Restrictions on the ownership structure of a public company may harm the company's performance by preventing owners from choosing the best structure. We examine the stock-price performance and ownership structure, before and after the expiration of anti-takeover regulations, of a sample of thrift institutions that converted from mutual to stock ownership. We find that after the anti-takeover provisions expire, firm performance improves significantly, and the portions of the firm owned by managers, noninstitutional outside blockholders, and the firm's employee stock ownership plan increase. Changes in performance are positively associated with changes in ownership by managers and by noninstitutional outside blockholders but negatively associated with changes in ownership by employee stock ownership plans.

Keywords: Stocks; Savings and loan associations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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