Are forced CEO turnovers good or bad news?

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Are forced CEO turnovers good or bad news?

Discussion paper / Internet publication

ID	4442268
Digital Object Identifier DOI	10.2139/ssrn.1679632
Author(s)	Kind, Axel; Schläpfer, Yves
Author(s) at UniBasel	Kind, Axel Schläpfer, Yves
Year	2011
Month and day	05-01
Title	Are forced CEO turnovers good or bad news?
Series title	WWZ Discussion Papers
Volume	2011
Number	10
Pages	40
Publisher / Institution	WWZ
Keywords	CEO turnover; Corporate governance; Firm performance
Abstract	To gain insights about the quality of board’s firing decisions, we investigate abnormal stock returns and operating performance around CEO-turnover announcements in a new handcollected sample of 208 “clean” turnover events between January 1998 and June 2009. Unlike the majority of previous studies, we show that forced turnovers do not per se represent a positive signal to shareholders. On the contrary, investors seem to critically assess the board’s firing decision by considering the quality of the departing manager. When an outperforming CEO is dismissed or forced to leave - an event that occurs in as many as 35% of all dismissals in our sample - shareholders disesteem the board’s decision. This finding is confirmed in multivariate cross-sectional regressions, holds for different time subperiods, and is robust to various event-test specifications and proxies of CEO quality.
edoc-URL	https://edoc.unibas.ch/62733/
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