Hoechle, Daniel; Schmid, Markus; Walter, Ingo; Yermack, … - In: Journal of Financial Economics 103 (2012) 1, pp. 41-60
We investigate whether the diversification discount occurs partly as an artifact of poor corporate governance. In panel data models, we find that the discount narrows by 16% to 21% when we add governance variables as regression controls. We also estimate Heckman selection models that account for...