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financial system and corporate governance
around the world.
lessons for emerging markets
Nicola Miglietta
Aggregated Professor of Business Management, Ph.D. University of Turin,
Department of Management, Italy
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Abstract
This article aims to scrutinize features of models of corporate governance across the globe. The purpose of the article is to find an optimal model that can be employed and developed by companies from emerging markets. Corporate governance is closely connected with a financial system of a country. usually, corporations appear to partnerships between managers-employees that take part in corporate governance and form human capital assets and external investors. Main goal of managers is to maximize stockholders' wealth. According to uS and uK laws, managers must serve the interests of stockholders. From this point of view, it is assumed that the Board of Directors represents stockholders' interests. But laws and traditions vary among different countries. It is widely accepted to distinguish corporate governance between countries with market-based and bank-based systems. the article is divided into two parts. the first part studies the interconnection between corporate finance and corporate governance. the second part explores corporate governance models of developed countries (Anglo-Saxon countries, Germany, Japan, and Italy) and emerging countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China) in attempt to find out differences among them. the conclusion presents key — x elements of corporate governance system and shows that the optimal model for emerging markets ^ should be based on the system of Network Governance that take into account interests of all the
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Key words: emerging capital markets, corporate governance, Network Governance.
Introduction
the structure of ownership and the resulting system of corporate governance varies according to its own financial system of reference.
rn ^ Financial systems can be divided into two categories: market-based systems and bank-based systems. In market-based systems companies are typically set as public companies, which collect cash mainly by the issue of corporate bonds and, only partially, recurring to bank loans; in bank-based ^ ^ systems, where private companies prevail, most capital is raised through bank loans, because of the ^ Oj low level of development of capital markets. In geographical terms, included among the market-^ ll based countries are the united States, the united Kingdom and Asia, while Europe and Japan are _ O included in the bank-based countries (Allen, Chui, Maddaloni, 2008).
O < these differences have historical roots, related to the different legal systems that have been adopted ^ ^ by each country. Indeed it is recognizable a correlation between the legal system in force in a specific 3 reality and the degree of development of its financial markets. In countries with a system based on O Common Law (like England), which guarantees a high level of investors' protection, there has been a significant development of the capital market. On the other hand, in countries where it is in force a system based on Civil Law (like most of those in Europe), the spread of the financial market is very limited. In the international scene these differences have led to a different development in Corporate Governance systems.
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The most common model of corporate governance is a product of developed markets (like Anglo-Saxon countries, Germany, Japan and Italy), where ownership and control are often separated (agency contract) and legal mechanisms and institutional context protect owners' interest (Peng, 2003). Differently, in emerging markets the institutional context makes the enforcement of agency contracts more onerous and difficult (Young et al., 2008).
the paper is organized as follows.
In the first part we have examined the relations between Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance. In the second part we have observed the main Corporate Governance Systems, from developed economies to emerging markets. In the third and last part, we have identified some critical factors common to models of corporate governance in Emerging Markets and, in a system of Network Governance, we have verified the existence of an optimal model of Corporate Governance that could be a datum point for Emerging Markets.
Relations between Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance
the united States, united Kingdom and Asia (Indonesia, Hong Kong, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, thailand, taiwan) have a market-based financial system with large stock market and large corporate bond market. Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Japan have a bank-based financial systems where bank financing plays an important role and stock market is relatively small. the differences between the financial systems have different historical origins and evolutionary impacts for the different countries also in terms of corporate governance.
Corporate Governance represents a system of prescriptive rules that regulate, within a corporation, relationships between the shareholder-owners, which bestow the resources required to carry out the business, and the management who is entrusted the company's administration (Keasy, thompson, Wright, 1997). In particular in emerging markets the empirical literature shows that a separation of control and ownership is the exception worldwide rather than the norm (demsetz, Lehn, 1985; La Porta, López-de-Silanes, Shleifer, 1999; Claessens, djankov, Lang, 2000; Becht, Mayer, 2001; ^ g Franks, Mayer, 2001; Faccio, Lang, 2002; Franks, Mayer, Wagner, 2006; Aguilera et al., 2011). the O relationship between shareholders and managers is defined of agency and it represents a contractual
X ^ form in which an individual (principal) charges another one (agent) with carrying out a set of tasks ^ ^ that entail management powers usable in a discretionary way (Jensen, Meckling, 1976; Shleifer, X c£ Vishny, 1997).
Qj the problem concerning the compliance of the managers' behaviour to meet the interests of shareholders (or owners) is connected with the theory of the separation of ownership and control and is the basis of several studies and related international contributions, carried out since the Sixties,
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the instruments of Corporate Governance are implemented to solve this problem, which are:
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the arrangement of a Board of directors, which is configured as an organ of protection for shareholders; its task is to supervise the management behavior in order to ensure that its conduct actually allows the satisfaction of shareholders' interests (that is the optimization of the shares' value) (Monks, Minow, 2004);
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• the introduction of incentive systems, through the arrangement, within the overall remuneration of managers, of a variable component, based on the performance achieved by the company (Demsetz, Lehn, 1985).
The relationship between Corporate Finance and Corporate Governance is observed in the fact that the mechanisms of corporate governance offer a kind of reassurance concerning the effective achievement of the expected remuneration to those who want to invest financial resources into the enterprise. Traditionally the literature identifies two models of governance, which are opposite to each other: the Anglo-Saxon model, typical of the United States, which sees a prevalence of public companies and a widespread of ownership, and the Rhine model, typical of Germany and also common, with some differences, in Japan, which sees firms that have a more concentrated ownership
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• the insider system, where the search for a compromise of interests prevails, directly within the corporation, among the many stakeholders and it is attributable to the Rhine-Japanese model.
Similarly the corporate bodies may be structured in systems (Fortuna, 2001):
• one-tier, characterized by a single Board of Directors with functions of management and of corporate control;
• two-tier, structured in a Management Board with management tasks, and a Supervisory Board with control tasks.
Below we analyse the corporate governance models common in major developed economies.
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The American capitalist system (United States) is typically market-oriented; it sees a clear prevalence ^ qj of Corporations as company model, characterized by a greatly fragmented ownership and a high degree of transparency towards the market. The strengths of this system are summarized by the fact that on one hand it allows the gathering of capital at competitive conditions and at low cost (essential n ¡Z conditions for value creation) and on the other hand it guarantees for a management oriented at a T ¡-U long-term growth, since its action isn't subjected to the pressure of a single or a few shareholders.
The system of governance adopted by U.S. corporations belong to the one-tier model (Fortuna, O 2001); It envisages the existence of a single administrative body (the Board of Directors), appointed ^ by the shareholders to whom are entrusted with both the management function and the control
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^ The English capitalist system (United Kingdom), like the U.S. one, is configured as a "managerial 3 capitalism". In fact it is characterized by a high degree of diffusion of ownership of large corporations O which are subsidized also significantly by institutional investors, such as insurance companies and investment funds (Mallin, 2006). The existence of a capital market highly fluid and large (market-oriented system) characterizes the Anglo-Saxon model of corporate governance. Even British companies have adopted a one-tier system of corporate governance, where there is a board within which government and control functions are carried out (Harvey, Maclean, Press, 2005).
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the Germany capitalist system is characterized by companies that have a very concentrated ownership structure, in which a key role is played by banks. they hold significant equity interests, as well as being the main source of funding of the business system (Franks, Mayer, 2001; Franks et al., 2006). the key role of the intermediary bank (so called Hausbank) is characterized by a very broad and articulate practicality and it had effects both on the financial structure of companies, determining the undercapitalization and entailing a prevalence of debt compared with the capital risk, and on the Germany corporate governance structure. Indeed power of control and influence of the Board of Directors, exercised trough special representatives, are granted to credit institutions by virtue of the direct holdings' in companies and loans supplied (Edwards, Nibler, 2000).
the Germany system of corporate governance is defined two-tier, as it provides for the establishment within companies of two organs that are assigned distinct functions: the Management Board, which deals exclusively with the business management, and the Supervisory Board, to whom is bestowed the control function, half of whose members represent employees' interest, while the other half is often made up of executives of investment banks representing shareholders' interest (Douma, 1997).
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Indeed the relationships that Keiretsu established with the Main Bank were central to its operation. The Main Bank was in charge of providing capital to individual business realities from which the X group was composed of and, at the same time, it held a significant equity interest (Hitt, Lee, Yucel, {^j ^ 2002). This has had an impact both on the ownership structure of Japanese companies - as a large T ^ part of the shares were held by banks and other financial intermediaries, another part, equally sig-^ lo nificant, was represented by the cross-holdings' system, while only a residual minority part was held by private shareholders - and on the system of governance, as the priority of the management was to protect the interests of the company, considered as an economic entity distinct from the shareholders.
From the mid-90s following the economic crisis that has led to a series of failures in the banking-insurance sector and that of the Keiretsu hanging on intermediaries involved (Bremner, Thornton, Kunii, 1999), the Japanese capitalist system began to move away from an exclusively bank-based system. It assumed a greater openness to the market, which has entailed an increase in the weight of ^ ^ private shareholders in the ownership structure of the Keiretsu and the consequent transformation of cc the model of corporate governance that, at present, is set up as a hybrid system. In this system both
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C^ O The system of corporate governance spread in Italy is closely related to the structure of national O ^ capitalist system, characterized by the predominance of family-owned SMEs (Small and Medium ^ Enterprises), for the lack of the stock market's development and a strong connection between business and banking system.
The governance structure of Italian companies is more similar to the Germany model rather than the Anglo-Saxon one precisely because of the high concentration of ownership and the low degree of openness to capital markets. This structure of governance of Italian companies is the result of the development that historically the Italian capitalism has had.
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The present governance model is of entrepreneurial-family kind: the majority shareholders, who practise an active role in the management of the company, are in most cases embodied by small family groups (Fiori, 2003; Mengol et al., 2009).
The government and management body of the company is the Board of Directors, appointed by the Ordinary Shareholders' Meeting, which has the possibility to revoke (or to re-elect) directors. In turn, the Board of Directors appoints, within itself, a Chief Executive Officer or an Executive Committee, which is entrusted with management functions. The governing body is accompanied by a supervisory body. Furthermore the Italian legal system recognizes to the limited company the possibility to choose among three different models of governance:
• the traditional one, which envisages that the Board of Directors is supported, as monitoring system, by a Board of Statutory Auditors, devoid of auditing assignments, entrusted to a legal auditor or an external auditing business;
• the dualistic one (dual-board), in which the Board of Directors takes the form of the Management Board and is supported by a Supervisory Board, which is entrusted with control assignments (this governance model is similar to that of Germany);
• the one-tier, in which there isn't a Board of Auditors and the control functions are entrusted to the Audit Committee, internal to the same Board of Directors (this governance model is similar to the Anglo-Saxon one).
^^ o The emerging Markets' Corporate Governance Models
" Over the past two decades there has been a rapid growth of emerging economies, among which Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) have recorded a growth rate particularly significant. Corporate governance has become a basic mean for improving corporate performance and for the development ^Te of market. In particular, the literature shows that there are several institutional features that are important in corporate finance and governance decisions (Fan, John Wei, Xu, 2011).
1. Government involvement in business. the quality of public governance is of first order rel--Q O evance in determining the governance of the corporate sector (Fan, Rui, Zhao, 2008). Emerging
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presence of the State in their economy. In particular, governments, through taxation, regulation, and state ownership, influence and control various aspects of business: from output (production process), to input, (for example labour, energy, infrastructures, and financing) (Fan, John Wei, Xu, 2011).
^ Indeed, the empirical evidence shows the existence of phenomena of collusion between entrepreneurs-managers and politicians (Fisman, 2001), which results in the creation of complex organiza__tional structures, characterized by lack of transparency and a weak system of governance (Leuz,
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2. Financial market development. A growing number of contributions indicate that economic growth depends on the distribution of control over capital assets (Levine, Ross, 1997; Rajan et al., 1998). In this sense, in a well-functioning economy, there is specialization in investment and in management and the role of financial market becomes essential (Dyck, 2001).
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• a prevalent control exercised by the Government on banking systems (La Porta et al., 2002);
• a reduced ability of the legal system to protect investors (Chen, Chen, Wie, 2009).
These features represent a structural weakness of the Corporate Governance Systems (Morck et al., 2005; Khanna, Yafeh, 2007). Moreover, as financial market development fails to keep up, emerging market firms have inadequate access to external capital (debt or equity) (Khanna, Yafeh, 2007). Often, applying for external financial resources involves non-price mechanisms such as building relationships with government officers and bankers (Fan, John Wei, Xu, 2011).
Further below we analyze the corporate governance models common in major emerging markets.
Brazil
Most of Brazilian companies have a highly concentrated ownership structure, in which the majority © of shares are held by or a single shareholder, or a small group of investors.
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The Indian financial market is highly developed. In fact 22 stock exchanges operate in the country and the number of foreign companies in India has nearly tripled in less than a decade (from 772 in 1997 to 1,654 in 2004). Therefore the regulation of the financial market has reached a high level of structure and, in 1992, a specific legislation was adopted, the Securities and Exchange Board of India Act (SEBI), which aims to regulate the functioning of the securities market and to introduce more advanced governance systems (Goswami, 2002; Dahiya, 2006).
However, the reform of corporate governance has met with obstacles due to the limited availability of qualified independent directors and the opposition by the dominant shareholders (Barton, Coombers, Wong, 2004; Rajagopalan, Zhang, 2008). The innovations introduced by SEBI covered a number of aspects (Dahiya, Gupta, 2003), starting from the composition of the Board of Directors.
Under reform was also the system of remuneration of non-executive and independent directors, as SEBI established that it is up to the Board to fix the level of remuneration of those individuals, which must, then, be approved by shareholders in assembly. Finally the role and powers of the Audit Committee were defined, which has the assignment of monitoring the financial reporting process, the quality of accounting, the risk management and the internal control system.
Moreover in 2005 the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, in collaboration with other national institutions, founded the National Foundation of Corporate Governance in order to further improve the corporate governance mechanisms in India and to promote the convergence to international standards in relation to accounting, the audit procedures and financial disclosure.
China
u China appears to be the largest economy in Asia and a leading country in the category of BRIC. ^^J The characteristics of the Chinese model of corporate governance are the result of the development
originated after the adoption, in the 90s, by the Government of a new economic policy, known as «2-R» (Retain and Retreat). It envisaged that the state maintained control of SOEs (State Owned _Q qj Enterprises), large public companies operating in the most strategic industries and, at the same U cc time, gave way to private control of small and medium-sized enterprises active in the most competitive sectors (Walter, Howie, 2003; Green, Liu, 2005). The development of the stock market has been of essential importance for the implementation of the policy. In fact, it is configured both as a vehicle for raising funds needed to support the SOEs, and allowed the government to transform ^ ^ public enterprises in modern companies, while maintaining a majority stake in them (Liu, Sun, 0 Z 2006).
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the corruption risk inside of companies and, as a consequence, the failure of corporate governance are real threats for the future of corporations therefore an optimal model of Corporate Governance should:
• identify responsibilities and the relative sanction mechanisms;
• protect the company reputation;
• create a greater separation between the role of control and the managerial power by sensitizing the responsibilities of managers and investor owners;
• guarantee the independence of the committee of auditing, nomination and remuneration;
• spread a culture of control by improving the quality and the flow of information inside the company structure.
Furthermore the corporate governance systems must be characterized by the confidence of the international financial community and then communicate efficiently openness, responsibility, absence of compromises and, in particular, attention to the behavioural distortions that characterizes the managers' decision-making process (Miglietta, Battisti, 2011). For example, a system of incentives linked to the future of the company, not necessarily based on the stock option mechanism, could reveal itself suitable for a decrease of the chief executive officer's conflicts of interest.
We believe that an optimal model of corporate governance should be based on a system of Network Governance (Nohria, 1992; Ring, Van de Ven, 1992; Jones, Hesterly, Borgatti, 1997). Indeed, network governance could represent an effective way to reform the corporate governance, by increasing board responsibility and competency. In fact, network governance is based on an active involvement of organizational stakeholder and multiple boards with different special attributions and in this way it allows the mitigation of the operational risk. the network works like human brain that it composed by several changing areas that work together and there is no an hierarchical control centre.
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Moreover the structure of network allows the achievement of the following objectives (Pirson, Turnbull, 2010):
• improvement of the accuracy of information;
• enhancement of the control inside the company;
• decrease of the overload of useless information;
• mediation of conflicts and unethical behaviour.
From the point of view of the first objective the network governance can reduce the communication risks by using parallel communication channels: these channels are managed by stakeholder councils that cross check all the information they receive from management; in this way the firm is able to capture higher quality information.
The second objective can be achieved by a strengthened monitoring of the risk and an increased number of controllers.
In order to reduce the overload of tasks and information the firm could introduce a separated control centre that operates with the committee of auditing, nomination and remuneration; another way to achieve this objective is to divide the governance task among different geographical areas. Finally the conflicts of interest could be mediated by systems of checks and balances in order to prevent systematic power abuse by the rulers. We can assert that the network governance is not the absolute solution to financial crisis and bankruptcy of firms (like, for example, Enron and Parmalat) but it represents an effective way to avoid future crisis by installing warning systems that use the intelligence of stakeholder: board could draw important conclusions if the firms establish a systematic stakeholder feedback independent from management (Pirson, Turnbull, 2010).
In conclusion we can highlight that there isn't an optimal model of Corporate Governance, but there is a virtuous model of Corporate Governance, that in a system of Network Governance, which could provide a reference point for the Emerging Markets.
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