2009
DOI: 10.2469/faj.v65.n4.2
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Does Freezing a Defined-Benefit Pension Plan Increase Company Value? Empirical Evidence

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“…Basing their results on an 84-company sample, Milevsky and Song (2010) showed a nonsignificant average value increase of 3.8% following pension fund freezes. McFarland et al (2009), however, found that the 82 companies sampled in their study showed negative average financial performance following a pension fund freeze announcement. These authors explained this under performance by diminished employee productivity following the pension fund changes; investors seem to anticipate lower productivity and stock prices drop as a result.…”
Section: Effect Of Pension Fund Freeze On Firm Performance and Riskmentioning
confidence: 81%
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“…Basing their results on an 84-company sample, Milevsky and Song (2010) showed a nonsignificant average value increase of 3.8% following pension fund freezes. McFarland et al (2009), however, found that the 82 companies sampled in their study showed negative average financial performance following a pension fund freeze announcement. These authors explained this under performance by diminished employee productivity following the pension fund changes; investors seem to anticipate lower productivity and stock prices drop as a result.…”
Section: Effect Of Pension Fund Freeze On Firm Performance and Riskmentioning
confidence: 81%
“…On the other, abnormal performance measurements obtained through the market model by Milevsky and Song () were dissociated neither from the effect of systematic risk variations—which can for example be attributed to the announcement effect—nor from the effect of the various risk factors and macroeconomic factors that may be correlated with the regressions’ error terms. McFarland et al (), meanwhile, obtained short‐term abnormal performances that were generally not different from zero, though they were negative on average over a period of nearly 20 days following the announcement.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 97%
“…En s'appuyant cette fois sur un échantillon de quatre‐vingts entreprises, les résultats de Milevsky et Song () révèlent une augmentation moyenne non significative de 3,8% de la valeur des entreprises suite à un gel des caisses de retraite. À l'opposé, McFarland et al () trouvent que les 82 entreprises de leur échantillon obtiennent une performance financière moyenne négative suite à l'annonce d'un gel d'une caisse de retraite. Les auteurs expliquent cette sous‐performance par une diminution de la productivité des employés qui sont affectés par ce changement à leur caisse de retraite.…”
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“…De leur côté, McFarland et al . () obtiennent des performances anormales à court terme qui ne sont généralement pas différentes de zéro, quoique négatives en moyenne sur une période de près de 20 jours après l'annonce.…”
Section: Résultats Empiriquesunclassified
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