Relationship Between the Characteristics of CEOs and Excess Cash Holdings of Firms

Jaemin Lim and Sang Cheol Lee

Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, 2019, vol. 55, issue 5, 1069-1090

Abstract: This study investigates the relationship between excess cash holdings of firms and CEO characteristics, such as ownership type, presence of stock options, inclusion in a chaebol, and CEO tenure. Based on a sample of non-financial listed Korean companies for 2000–2014, we find first, that professional CEOs have higher excess cash holdings than owner-managers have. Second, longer CEO tenure lowers excess cash holdings but decreases the marginal impact of CEO tenure on excess cash holdings. Third, the effect of CEO affiliation to a chaebol on excess cash holdings was greater before the global financial crisis of 2008–2009 than after it. Excess cash holdings arise from agency problems and the CEO horizon problem but agency problems between minority and dominant shareholders have eased in Korea since the crisis.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2018.1518778

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