How do Managerial Entrenchment and Expropriation Affect Control Mechanisms?

[EN] This paper proposes a new empirical approach that allows us to appropriately control for the non-linearities of ownership with respect to firm value when analysing how managerial entrenchment and expropriation affect the relations among control mechanisms. Unlike findings in previous US-based s...

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Autores: Miguel Hidalgo, Alberto de, Pindado García, Julio, De la Torre, Chabela
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2003
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)
Repositorio:GREDOS. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Salamanca
OAI Identifier:oai:gredos.usal.es:10366/149769
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10366/149769
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:ownership concentration
Insider ownership
Debt
Expropriation
Entrenchment
Dividends
5311 Organización y Dirección de Empresas
5311.02 Gestión Financiera
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Sumario:[EN] This paper proposes a new empirical approach that allows us to appropriately control for the non-linearities of ownership with respect to firm value when analysing how managerial entrenchment and expropriation affect the relations among control mechanisms. Unlike findings in previous US-based studies, which in general point to substitutability among mechanisms, our results show that control mechanisms (especially insider ownership, debt and dividends) are used in a complementary way by Spanish firms. In addition, this complementarity is only observed when the interests of managers and owners converge, but not when there are controlling owners - insiders or outsiders - whose interests need not coincide with those of minority shareholders. Therefore, managerial entrenchment and expropriation effects do influence the relationship among agency-cost control.