The relevance of annual general meetings: recent evidence from the UK

Lawal, Tolulola

Abstract

Using over 14,000 hand-collected annual general meeting dates of UK firms over the period 2004 to 2014, the study provides some evidence in support of the information content hypothesis from the analysis of price and volume reactions around annual general meetings. In addition, the study finds some support for an increase in the information content of annual general meetings during the study period. Our results show that both the magnitude of abnormal return and the temporal variation in the information content of annual general meetings depend on a number of firm characteristics that capture firms information environment.

Citation

Lawal, T. (in press). The relevance of annual general meetings: recent evidence from the UK. International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance, 12(1), Article 111804. https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBAAF.2021.111804

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Aug 5, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Nov 20, 2020
• Deposit Date: Oct 17, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 17, 2019
• Journal: International Journal of Banking, Accounting and Finance
• Print ISSN: 1755-3830
• Electronic ISSN: 1755-3849
• Publisher: Inderscience
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 12
• Issue: 1
• Article Number: 111804
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBAAF.2021.111804
• Keywords: corporate governance; annual general meetings; information content hypothesis; event study; abnormal return; abnormal volume; UK; United Kingdom
• Publisher URL: https://www.cefims.ac.uk/research/papers/DP131/
• Related Public URLs: https://www.inderscience.com/info/ingeneral/forthcoming.php?jcode=ijbaaf