Inside Directors, Managerial Competition, and the Asymmetric Information Problem
We posit that placing insiders on the board facilitates information flows to outside directors, mitigates the CEO's role as information gatekeeper, and allows managers to be more independent of the CEO. We find that inside directors are more prevalent in environments of greater information asym...
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2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/5921 http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.674082 http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=674082 |
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| Summary: | We posit that placing insiders on the board facilitates information flows to outside directors, mitigates the CEO's role as information gatekeeper, and allows managers to be more independent of the CEO. We find that inside directors are more prevalent in environments of greater information asymmetry. Further tests indicate that the percentage of insiders is associated with lower CEO pay, lower CEO influence, and higher use of accounting-based performance measures. However, these counterbalancing effects are diminishing in the number of insiders on the board. We conclude that insiders improve information flow to the board, foster managerial competition, and enhance board power. |
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