Transações entre partes relacionadas, governança corporativa e desempenho das empresas brasileiras

Abstract

This paper investigates the relationship between related party transactions and firm performance for Brazilian companies. Additionally, we analyze the relationship between these transactions and corporate governance quality. In order to measure these relationships, it was adopted a statistical model of panel data for a sample of 107 companies in the period from 2011 to 2015. The results indicate that related party transactions are frenquent and have significant amounts among the companies in our sample. There was a substantial increase in the incidence and value of these operations between 2011 and 2014, with a same proportion decrease in 2015, that is possibly related to the disclosure of new instruction CVM 552/14, which became effective in 2015. Futrthermore, we found a negative and significant relationship between the firm performance and the financial relevance of the related party transactions. Furthermore, a negative and significant association was observed between corporate governance and related party transacions. Overall, the results corroborate the conflict of interest hypothesis, it indicating a possible market disapproval for related party transactions and/or an undestanding of the potential of minority shareholder expropriation mechanism provided by such transactions.