The (Market) Value of State Honors

Stéphane Benveniste, Renaud Coulomb and Marc Sangnier

No 2201, AMSE Working Papers from Aix-Marseille School of Economics, France

Abstract: State awards to civilians are a widespread social phenomenon across space and time. This paper quantifies the impact of State awards given to Directors on the stock value of their firms. We link a comprehensive dataset of recipients of the Légion d'honneurthe most prestigious official award in France-over the 1995-2019 period to Board positions in French listed firms. We document large abnormal returns in the stocks of recipients' firms at the date of the award, suggesting that awards signal valuable access to policy-makers. This interpretation is corroborated by the absence of any market reaction for recipients who were already identified before award receipt as being close to the Government.

Keywords: Awards; State Honors; Symbolic Capital; Political Connections (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D71 D72 G14 G18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 97 pages
Date: 2022-02
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