Understanding the Determinants of Managerial Ownership and the Link between Ownership and Performance

46 Pages Posted: 21 Feb 2000 Last revised: 14 Sep 2022

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Charles P. Himmelberg

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

R. Glenn Hubbard

Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Finance; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Darius Palia

Rutgers University, Newark, School of Business-Newark, Department of Finance & Economics; Columbia University - Law School

Date Written: February 2000

Abstract

Both managerial ownership and performance are endogenously determined by exogenous (and only partly observed) changes in the firm's contracting environment. We extend the cross-sectional results of Demsetz and Lehn (1985) and use panel data to show that managerial ownership is explained by key variables in the contracting environment in ways consistent with the predictions of principal-agent models. A large fraction of the cross-sectional variation in managerial ownership is explained by unobserved firm heterogeneity. Moreover, after controlling both for observed firm characteristics and firm fixed effects, we cannot conclude (econometrically) that changes in managerial ownership affect firm performance.

Suggested Citation

Himmelberg, Charles P. and Hubbard, Robert Glenn and Palia, Darius, Understanding the Determinants of Managerial Ownership and the Link between Ownership and Performance (February 2000). NBER Working Paper No. w7209, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=203150

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