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Asian Review of Financial Research, Vol., No..
pp.1308~1343
pp.1308~1343
Causal interpretation with board characteristics : Caveat emptor
Jong-Min Kim Statistics Discipline University of Minnesota at Morris
Chulhee Jun Department of Finance Ziegler College of Business Bloomsburg University Bloomsburg, PA 17815, USA
Hope H. Han School of Business Administration Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) Ulsan 44919, Republic of Korea
The study of a causal interpretation of board and firm characteristics, that is, a hidden dependence relationship on the causal inference among board and firm characteristics, is an important but unaddressed issue in the corporate governance literature. Using diverse advanced statistical methods and focusing on Tobin¡¯s Q, we find that i) not all board variables previously found to be significant are ¡°robust¡± to latent variable data analysis, and ii) those variables that are consistently significant differ markedly in latent structural equation analysis. Our analyses provide researchers interested in board issues with an important caveat: focusing on the dependence structure of available board variables affected by latent factors may introduce a new horizon in corporate finance.
Jong-Min Kim
Chulhee Jun
Hope H. Han
The study of a causal interpretation of board and firm characteristics, that is, a hidden dependence relationship on the causal inference among board and firm characteristics, is an important but unaddressed issue in the corporate governance literature. Using diverse advanced statistical methods and focusing on Tobin¡¯s Q, we find that i) not all board variables previously found to be significant are ¡°robust¡± to latent variable data analysis, and ii) those variables that are consistently significant differ markedly in latent structural equation analysis. Our analyses provide researchers interested in board issues with an important caveat: focusing on the dependence structure of available board variables affected by latent factors may introduce a new horizon in corporate finance.