英文摘要 |
This paper examines the relationship between corporate governance and firm performance. Besides the individual aspects (including the performance of the broad of directors, ownership structure, and involvement of capital markets) of governance characteristics, a composite corporate governance index is built. We show the firms under stronger governance experience better performance than those under weaker governance leading to a positive relation between corporate governance and firm performance. More importantly, we demonstrate that the effect of individual aspect of corporate governance on firm performance is subsumed in the composite corporate governance implying that the composite corporate governance index can proxy for corporate governance more precisely. Based on the composite corporate governance index, investors can earn abnormal return by longing firms with higher composite corporate governance index and shorting those with lower composite corporate governance index. |