What is the Relation (if any) Between a Firm's Corporate Governance Arrangements and its Financial Performance?

Roberto Wessels (), Tom J. Wansbeek and Lammertjan Dam
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Roberto Wessels: University of Groningen, Netherlands
Tom J. Wansbeek: University of Groningen, Netherlands

Multinational Finance Journal, 2016, vol. 20, issue 4, 323-354

Abstract: We present a model to test the null hypothesis that firms organize their corporate governance arrangements optimally given the constraints they face. Following the literature, the model rejects the null if the conditional correlation between governance and performance is significantly different from zero. Our model provides a clean test of this hypothesis by controlling for measurement errors in all observed variables and avoiding simultaneous equation biases by casting our model as a reduced-form bivariate equation. We model governance, performance and the constraints on the firm's investment decisions as latent variables. We estimate of the conditional correlation between our measures of corporate governance and firm financial performance to be statistically speaking equal to zero. This result therefore provides empirical support for the in-equilibrium view of corporate governance arrangements.

Keywords: corporate governance; optimal firm behavior; endogeneity; structural models; latent variables (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C38 G34 L20 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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