Board Effectiveness and Short Termism

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serval:BIB_A640CBCD0B2D
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Collection
Publications
Title
Board Effectiveness and Short Termism
Journal
Journal of Business Finance and Accounting
Author(s)
Gonzalez A., André P.
ISSN
0306-686X
Publication state
Published
Issued date
01/2014
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
41
Number
1-2
Pages
185-209
Language
english
Abstract
We examine whether more effective boards in terms of size, experience, shareholding and independence, as discussed in the 2010 UK Corporate Governance Code, limit excessive short-term risk taking or short-termism. We use a state-of-the-art asset pricing model that enables the disentangling of short-term risk (related to short-term returns) and long-term risk (related to long-term returns), and use the former as a proxy for short-termism, where the short-term component not only represents the time horizon for which we are interested but also the risk that is not related to fundamentals. We examine 916 firms in the UK over a possible horizon of 18 years, January 1992-December 2010, and find that more effective boards are associated with lower levels of short-term risk and this result is robust to various types of short-term risk (overall, downside) and specifications.
Keywords
Short-termism, Corporate governance, Board effectiveness
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