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Empirical Evidence on the Role of Proxy Advisors in European Capital Markets

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  • Joerg-Markus Hitz
  • Nico Lehmann

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Responding to regulators’ requests and filling a void in the academic literature, this paper provides comprehensive empirical evidence on the role of proxy advisors in 14 European countries. Exploiting coverage data and using content analysis of proxy voting reports by Institutional Shareholder Services and Glass Lewis, we provide descriptive analyses of proxy advisors’ firm coverage, the variation and determinants of voting recommendations, the relation between voting recommendations and shareholder voting at annual general meetings, and market reactions to the release of voting recommendations. Overall, our findings suggest an economically important role of proxy advisors in European markets. Throughout our analyses, we document that this role varies with governance- and ownership-related firm characteristics and with country-level measures of institutional strength.

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  • Joerg-Markus Hitz & Nico Lehmann, 2018. "Empirical Evidence on the Role of Proxy Advisors in European Capital Markets," European Accounting Review, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 27(4), pages 713-745, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:euract:v:27:y:2018:i:4:p:713-745
    DOI: 10.1080/09638180.2017.1305282
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    1. Nico Lehmann, 2019. "Do Corporate Governance Analysts Matter? Evidence from the Expansion of Governance Analyst Coverage," Journal of Accounting Research, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 57(3), pages 721-761, June.
    2. Dasgupta, Amil & Fos, Vyacheslav & Sautner, Zacharias, 2021. "Institutional investors and corporate governance," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 112114, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Miyachi, Hiroaki & Takeda, Fumiko, 2024. "Empirical study on voting results and proxy advisor recommendations in Japan," Journal of International Financial Markets, Institutions and Money, Elsevier, vol. 92(C).
    4. Schneider, Julian, 2023. "Förderung der Transparenz oder Kosten für die Aktionäre? Beurteilung der Regulierung von Proxy Advisors anhand der U.S.-Marktreaktion [Promoting Transparency or Harming Shareholders? U.S. Market Re," Junior Management Science (JUMS), Junior Management Science e. V., vol. 8(1), pages 148-162.
    5. Paul M. Guest & Marco Nerino, 2019. "Do Corporate Governance Ratings Change Investor Expectations? Evidence from Announcements by Institutional Shareholder Services," Working Papers wp515, Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.
    6. Ishida, Souhei & Kochiyama, Takuma, 2020. "ISS’s Proxy Voting Guidelines and ROE Management," Working Paper Series 235, Management Innovation Research Center, School of Business Administration, Hitotsubashi University Business School.

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