Irene, Wei Kiong Ting and Hooi, Hooi Lean and Qian, Long Kweh and Noor Azlinna, Azizan (2014) Managerial overconfidence and corporate financing decision: The moderating effect of government ownership. In: 16th Malaysian Finance Association Conference 2014 , 4-6 June 2014 , Kuala Lumpur. .
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Abstract
This paper investigates the impact of managerial overconfidence on corporate financing decision for publicly listed companies in Malaysia for the period of 2002-2011. Pooled OLS, fixed effect method (FEM) panel models and Tobit regressions are employed to examining the relationship between managerial overconfidence, government ownership, and leverage decision of publicly listed companies in Malaysia. This is the first study that empirically examines the impact of managerial overconfidence by testing CEO personal characteristics as a main independent variable on corporate financing decision for Malaysian firms. We also make the first attempt to test the moderating effect of government ownership on the relationship of managerial overconfidence and leverage decision. We conclude that (1) CEO overconfidence is significantly and negatively related to corporate financing decision and it is consistent with prior studies. (2) A higher degree of managerial overconfidence would result in lower leverage in GLCs, whereas the effect does not significantly exist in NGLCs. (3) A larger ownership of government in a firm will reduce the negative effect of managerial overconfidence on corporate financing decision. The finding implies that moderating effect of government ownership on the association between managerial overconfidence and corporate financing decision in GLCs is more effective than NGLCs.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Speech) |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Managerial overconfidence; Government Ownership; Corporate financing decision; Malaysian public listed companies |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HG Finance |
| Faculty/Division: | Faculty of Engineering Technology |
| Depositing User: | Noorul Farina Arifin |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2014 03:06 |
| Last Modified: | 21 Feb 2022 04:33 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/6126 |
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