Market Reaction to Voluntary and Mandatory Announcements of Independent Director Appointments
In this paper, we use a unique natural experimental setting to examine the market value of both voluntary and mandatory independent director appointments using a sample of Taiwanese listed firms. We find a significantly positive stock price reaction when a firm announces it is appointing independen...
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| author | Hueh-Chen Lin Chin-Sheng Huang Jack J. W. Yang |
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In this paper, we use a unique natural experimental setting to examine the market value of both voluntary and mandatory independent director appointments using a sample of Taiwanese listed firms. We find a significantly positive stock price reaction when a firm announces it is appointing independent directors to its board. Particularly, poor corporate performance and a higher degree of information asymmetry significantly benefit from the mandatory appointment. We conclude that the mandatory regulation for Taiwan listed firms to have a minimum number and ratio of independent directors on their boards appears to be a sound policy.
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Board Independence; Independent Director; Mandatory Appointment.
JEL Classifications: G34; G38
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| spelling | doaj.art-cd91b436d5864758b6e9d1c8563f5a972023-02-15T16:17:21ZengEconJournalsInternational Journal of Economics and Financial Issues2146-41382014-12-0151Market Reaction to Voluntary and Mandatory Announcements of Independent Director AppointmentsHueh-Chen Lin0Chin-Sheng Huang1Jack J. W. Yang2National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, TaiwanNational Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Yunlin, TaiwanNational Yunlin University of Science & Technology, Yunlin, Taiwan. In this paper, we use a unique natural experimental setting to examine the market value of both voluntary and mandatory independent director appointments using a sample of Taiwanese listed firms. We find a significantly positive stock price reaction when a firm announces it is appointing independent directors to its board. Particularly, poor corporate performance and a higher degree of information asymmetry significantly benefit from the mandatory appointment. We conclude that the mandatory regulation for Taiwan listed firms to have a minimum number and ratio of independent directors on their boards appears to be a sound policy. Keywords: Corporate Governance; Board Independence; Independent Director; Mandatory Appointment. JEL Classifications: G34; G38 http://mail.econjournals.com/index.php/ijefi/article/view/1012 |
| spellingShingle | Hueh-Chen Lin Chin-Sheng Huang Jack J. W. Yang Market Reaction to Voluntary and Mandatory Announcements of Independent Director Appointments International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues |
| title | Market Reaction to Voluntary and Mandatory Announcements of Independent Director Appointments |
| title_full | Market Reaction to Voluntary and Mandatory Announcements of Independent Director Appointments |
| title_fullStr | Market Reaction to Voluntary and Mandatory Announcements of Independent Director Appointments |
| title_full_unstemmed | Market Reaction to Voluntary and Mandatory Announcements of Independent Director Appointments |
| title_short | Market Reaction to Voluntary and Mandatory Announcements of Independent Director Appointments |
| title_sort | market reaction to voluntary and mandatory announcements of independent director appointments |
| url | http://mail.econjournals.com/index.php/ijefi/article/view/1012 |
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