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Institutional Monitoring: Evidence from the F‐Score
Author(s) -
Chung Chune Young,
Liu Chang,
Wang Kainan,
Zykaj Blerina Bela
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of business finance and accounting
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.282
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1468-5957
pISSN - 0306-686X
DOI - 10.1111/jbfa.12123
Subject(s) - extant taxon , corporate governance , enterprise value , business , institutional investor , accounting , value (mathematics) , term (time) , monetary economics , finance , economics , physics , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , machine learning , computer science , biology
Abstract The extant literature shows that institutional investors engage in corporate governance to enhance a firm's long‐term value. Measuring firm performance using the F‐Score, we examine the persistent monitoring role of institutional investors and identify the financial aspects of a firm that institutional monitoring improves. We find strong evidence that long‐term institutions with large shareholdings consistently improve a firm's F‐Score and that such activity occurs primarily through the enhancement of the firm's operating efficiency. Other institutions reduce a firm's F‐Score. Moreover, we find evidence that, while monitoring institutions improve a firm's financial health, transient (followed by non‐transient) institutions trade on this information.