International cross-listing, firm performance and top management turnover
Subtitle: a test of the bonding hypothesis
By: Ugur Lel and Darius P. Miller
Contributors: Miller, Darius P.; Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.)
Series: International finance discussion papers -- no. 877; International finance discussion papers (Online) -- no. 877.
Publisher: Federal Reserve Board
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Description: "We examine a primary outcome of corporate governance, the ability to identify and terminate poorly performing CEOs, to test the effectiveness of U.S.  investor protections in improving the corporate governance of cross-listed firms.  We find that firms from weak investor protection regimes that are cross-listed on a major U.S.  exchange are more likely to terminate poorly performing CEOs than non-cross-listed firms.  Cross-listings on exchanges that do not require the adoption of the most stringent investor protections (OTC, private placements and London listings) are not associated with a higher propensity to shed poorly performing CEOs.  Overall, our results provide direct support for the bonding hypothesis of Coffee (1999) and Stulz (1999), and suggest that the functional convergence of legal systems is indeed possible"--Federal Reserve Board web site.
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