Managerial Ownership and Corporate Value: Evidence from ISE

In this paper, the relationship between managerial share ownership and firm performance of trading ISE Turkish firms during the period 2004 to 2008 is investigated. In previous researches reveal endogeneity problem while it is examining this relation. To solve the problem, we used panel data analysis that is suggested by Demsetz ve Lehn (1985) and Himmelberg et al. (1999). After controlling for the observed firm characteristics, we analyzed the effect of managerial share ownership on firm performance. We find no significant relationship between managerial share ownership and firm performance (Tobin’s Q) using panel data regression model.