Corporate Governance, Principal-Principal Agency Conflicts, And Disclosure

Abstract

This study investigates the relation between corporate governance and disclosure quality in a context of principal-principal conflicts and poor investor protection. Overall, the empirical results suggest that minority expropriation risk harms disclosure quality. Specifically, we find that disclosure quality is negatively associated with ownership concentration, major shareholder voting rights, the existence of double voting rights, and family control. The results obtained also evidence a positive relationship between disclosure quality and the existence of executive stock option plans giving support that this mechanism plays a key role in corporate transparency.