Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/107068 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
DICE Discussion Paper No. 174
Publisher: 
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE), Düsseldorf
Abstract: 
This study contributes to the ongoing debate on the relevance of non-executive outside directors for corporate governance building on a large panel of European listed firms in the period 2003 to 2011. Focusing on executive turnover as an indicator for effective monitoring, the findings reveal that outside directors and product market competition are substitutes. Outsiders increase the performance-turnover sensitivity of executives exclusively if competition in the industry is relatively weak. In an environment with effective competition, outsiders do not significantly influence the decision to replace underperforming managers. In fiercely competitive markets, the higher threat of bankruptcy or hostile takeover seems to effectively limit managerial discretion for opportunistic behavior.
Subjects: 
Competition
Corporate Governance
Executive Turnover
Outside Directors
JEL: 
G34
J24
J63
L40
M00
ISBN: 
978-3-86304-173-1
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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