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Do Corporate Governance Ratings Change Investor Expectations? Evidence from Announcements by Institutional Shareholder Services
[Interim news and the role of proxy voting advice]

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  • Paul M Guest
  • Marco Nerino

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This paper examines empirically the announcement effect of commercial corporate governance ratings on share returns. Rating downgrades by Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) are associated with negative returns of –1.14% over a 3-day announcement window. The returns are highly correlated with the proprietary analysis of ISS and are decreasing in agency costs, consistent with ratings providing independent information on underlying corporate governance quality. We thus show that the influence and impact of ISS extends beyond proxy recommendations and subsequent voting outcomes. Our findings contrast with the insignificant price impact of Daines, Gow, and Larcker (2010), whose analysis we replicate and successfully reconcile to ours by pooling upgrades and downgrades together.

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  • Paul M Guest & Marco Nerino, 2020. "Do Corporate Governance Ratings Change Investor Expectations? Evidence from Announcements by Institutional Shareholder Services [Interim news and the role of proxy voting advice]," Review of Finance, European Finance Association, vol. 24(4), pages 891-928.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:revfin:v:24:y:2020:i:4:p:891-928.
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    1. Nguyen, Quynh Trang & Lindset, Snorre & Eriksen, Sondre Hansen & Skara, Marie, 2024. "Can an influential and responsible investor indeed be influential through responsible investments? Evidence from a $1 trillion fund," International Review of Economics & Finance, Elsevier, vol. 89(PA), pages 1120-1135.
    2. Burak Pirgaip & Mehmet Berktay Akyüz, 2020. "To Be Rated or To Be Indexed: Corporate Governance Rating Experience in Borsa Istanbul," Istanbul Business Research, Istanbul University Business School, vol. 49(2), pages 271-300, November.

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    Keywords

    Corporate governance ratings; Information intermediaries; Event study; Information content; Institutional shareholder services;
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    JEL classification:

    • G14 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - Information and Market Efficiency; Event Studies; Insider Trading
    • G24 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Investment Banking; Venture Capital; Brokerage
    • G34 - Financial Economics - - Corporate Finance and Governance - - - Mergers; Acquisitions; Restructuring; Corporate Governance

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