Stock Market Returns, Corporate Governance and Capital Market Equilibrium

40 Pages Posted: 6 Dec 2013

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Bruno Maria Parigi

University of Padua - Department of Economics; CESifo (Center for Economic Studies and Ifo Institute)

Loriana Pelizzon

Goethe University Frankfurt - Faculty of Economics and Business Administration; Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE; Ca Foscari University of Venice - Dipartimento di Economia

Ernst-Ludwig von Thadden

Universitaet Mannheim; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)

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Date Written: November 29, 2013

Abstract

This paper proposes a theoretical model that incorporates corporate governance into the basic CAPM, where corporate governance affects the disutility of managerial effort and the possibility of managers to divert company resources. It shows that corporate governance affects firms’ stock returns and also how the quality of corporate governance is chosen endogenously. The model predicts that in equilibrium the quality of corporate governance correlates positively with β and idiosyncratic volatility and negatively with returns on assets. Various tests with U.S. firm data using the corporate governance index of Gompers, Ishii, and Metrick (2003) confirm these predictions.

Keywords: corporate governance, CAPM, variability of returns

JEL Classification: G320, G380, K220

Suggested Citation

Parigi, Bruno Maria and Parigi, Bruno Maria and Pelizzon, Loriana and von Thadden, Ernst-Ludwig, Stock Market Returns, Corporate Governance and Capital Market Equilibrium (November 29, 2013). CESifo Working Paper Series No. 4496, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2363915 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2363915

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