Seminar Invitation | Th. 29 March | Konstantinos Stathopoulos, Manchester Business School

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UNIVERSITY OF PIRAEUS
SCHOOL OF FINANCE AND STATISTICS
DEPARTMENT OF BANKING AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

The Department of Banking and Financial Management announces the upcoming seminar with
Prof. Konstantinos Stathopoulos, Manchester Business School

Institutional Investors’ Horizons and Corporate Employment Decisions

Seminar Organizers: Assist. Prof. Michail Anthropelos, Prof. George Skiadopoulos

Supported by Piraeus Bank

Abstract: Monitoring by long-term investors should reduce agency conflicts in firms’ labor investment choices. Consistent with this argument, we find that abnormal net hiring, measured as the absolute deviation from optimal net hiring predicted by economic fundamentals, decreases in the presence of institutional investors with longer investment horizons. Firms dominated by long-term shareholders reduce both over-investment (over-hiring and under-firing) and underinvestment (under-hiring) in employees. The monitoring role of long-term investors is more pronounced for firms facing higher labor adjustment costs. We address endogeneity concerns by exploiting exogenous changes to long-term institutional ownership resulting from annual reconstitutions of the Russell indexes.

Konstantinos Stathopoulos is Professor of Accounting and Finance at the Alliance Manchester Business School of the University of Manchester. His main research interests lie in corporate governance. They seek an understanding of how suboptimal governance practices destroy shareholder wealth and lead to crises in the markets, similar to the ones we have observed over the last 20 years. He has published a number of papers in world leading and international journals, including the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Corporate Finance, Corporate Governance: An International Review, Journal of International Money and Finance, European Accounting Review, among others. More information can be found in his website at https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/K.Stathopoulos.html.

Prof. Konstantinos Stathopoulos,

Manchester Business School

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Time and Place: March 29, 2018,  University of Piraeus,

80 Karaoli & Dimitriou Str., Piraeus

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April 19, 2018: Christophe Perignon, HEC Paris

April 26, 2018: Seminar by Internal Faculty member: Nikitas Pittis

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