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http://dx.doi.org/10.15207/JKCS.2020.11.12.233

Employee ownership in Defined Contribution and the Effect of the Pension Protection Act of 2006  

Park, Heejin (School of Business, Pusan National University)
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Journal of the Korea Convergence Society / v.11, no.12, 2020 , pp. 233-242 More about this Journal
Abstract
We posit that employee ownership through defined contribution (DC) plans results in managerial entrenchment, and then examine the effect of the enactment of the Pension Protection Act of 2006 on the relation between the employee ownership and firm performance. By conducting Ordinary Least Square regression with the data from Form 5500 over the period of 1999-2014, we find that firms with large employee ownership increase their firm value measured by Tobin's Q after the adoption of the Act. These findings suggest that the adoption of the Act has been effective to mitigate the negative effect of managerial entrenchment by decreasing the employee ownership and reinforcing the fiduciary duty of plan trustees. Given the fact that we test the effects of the diversification rule on employee ownership using firm performance, further research could aim to examine the effects of the rule on employee ownership using stock return or market reaction.
Keywords
Pension Protection Act of 2006; Defined contribution plan; Company stock; Managerial Entrenchment; Tobin's Q;
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