Agents watching agents?: evidence from pension fund ownership and firm value

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Woidtke, T
• 署名单位: Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station; Mays Business School
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0304-405X
• DOI: 10.1016/S0304-405X(01)00091-5
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 99-131
• 关键词: Agency theory; institutional investors; corporate governance; Ownership structure

摘要

This paper examines the valuation effects associated with the incentive structures of different types of institutional investors using the ownership levels of public and private pension funds in a firm. The results suggest that institutional monitoring is associated with valuation effects when both observable and unobservable aspects of the relationship between institutions and firms are taken into account, Moreover, the valuation effects vary according to the objective functions of institutions' administrators. Thus, other shareholders do not necessarily benefit from relationships between institutions and managers, and they could be hurt when the institutional agents watching firm agents have conflicts of interest with other shareholders. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved.