CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE: AN ANALYSIS OF PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AMONG THE THREE LEVELS OF BM&FBOVESPA’S DIFFERENTIATED MARKET
Keywords:
Corporate Governance, Differentiated Market, Economic Performance.Abstract
Corporate governance, which emerged in order to solve or mitigate the agency conflicts, seems to have
the additional benefit of increasing the market value of the companies that practice it in higher levels.
Empirical research developed in Brazil, United States and Europe have shown the benefits in economic
performance achieved by companies with good governance practices in relation to those that do not adopt
them. By taking an alternative and complementary line of inquiry, this study analyzes the relationship
between different levels of corporate governance of companies and the increase in their market value, that
is, if the higher corporate governance level means the higher increase in economic development. Were
analyzed all the 182 companies present in BM&FBOVESPA’s differentiated market, for they present the
higher levels of corporate governance, distributed in three levels – “New Market”, “Level 2”, and “Level 1”
– relating them to their market value. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential
analysis, applying average testes and variance analysis. We found evidences that companies listed in the
higher level of differentiated market present a better economic performance, measured in terms of market
value’s average variation.
