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Corporate governance, legal systems and value relevance of fair value estimates. Empirical evidence from the EU banking sector

Gobierno corporativo, sistemas legales y relevancia de valor de las estimaciones de valor razonable.Evidencia empírica del sector bancario de la ue

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Pages 203-223 | Received 05 Nov 2016, Accepted 25 Apr 2018, Published online: 15 May 2018
 

ABSTRACT

Scholars agree that the role played by corporate governance mechanisms is likely to be affected by the quality of the legal systems in which firms operate. This paper investigates whether the quality of firm-level corporate governance is more valuable in countries with a high- or low-quality legal system. To do so, the paper focuses on the value relevance of fair value hierarchy disclosed by the European financial entities listed in 14 stock markets over the period 2011–2015. Findings show that differences in the quality of legal systems positively affect the value relevance of fair value estimates and provide evidence that the effect of firm-level corporate governance on the value relevance of fair value assets and liabilities is stronger in countries with high-quality legal systems. Our study contributes to the literature to the extent to which it shows that the ability of corporate governance to improve the value relevance of fair value measurements depends on the quality of the legal system under which firms operate. For this reason, our results complement findings reported by prior studies that have separately investigated the effect of the quality of corporate governance and of investor protection on the value relevance of fair value measurement.

 

Los académicos coinciden en que el papel desempeñado por los mecanismos de gobierno corporativo es presumibilmente afectado por la calidad de los sistemas legales en los que operan las empresas. Este paper investiga si la calidad del gobierno corporativo a nivel empresarial es más valiosa en países con un sistema legal de alta o baja calidad. Para hacerlo, el artículo se focaliza en la relevancia del valor de la jerarquía de valor razonable revelada por las entidades financieras europeas, listadas en 14 bolsas de valores durante los años 2011-2015. Los resultados muestran que las diferencias en la calidad de los sistemas legales afectan positivamente la relevancia del valor de las estimaciones de valor razonable, y proporcionan evidencia de que el efecto del gobierno corporativo a nivel empresarial sobre la relevancia de valor de los activos y pasivos de valor razonable es más fuerte en países con alta calidad de sistemas legales. Nuestro estudio contribuye a las publicaciones en la manera que muestra que la capacidad del gobierno corporativo, para mejorar la relevancia del valor de las mediciones del valor razonable, depende de la calidad del sistema legal bajo el cual operan las empresas. Por esta razón, nuestros resultados complementan los hallazgos reportados por estudios precedentes, los cuales investigaron separadamente el efecto de la calidad del gobierno corporativo y de la protección del inversionista en la relevancia del valor de la medición del valor razonable.

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to thank the Editor, prof. Flora Muiño, for her constructive comments and support during the review process and an anonymous reviewer for her/his helpful comments that have greatly improved the final version of the paper. They are also grateful to Dr Anna Romagnuolo for editing the English version of this text.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

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