Corporate Governance and Financial Constraints (Investment-cash flow sensitivity)

Superior corporate governance can reduce the extent to which controlling shareholders can engage in expropriation and thereby decrease the firm's financial constraints. If management is more committed to emphasizing shareholder value and financial discipline, the company has a more transparent information environment, and the board of directors is more independent of controlling shareholders, it is more difficult for the controlling shareholders to expropriate from minority shareholders. The main purpose of this study is investigating the impact of corporate governance mechanisms on the financial constraints in the companies listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange. The sample of this study, includes 102 companies listed in the Tehran Stock Exchange during the period 1386-1390 and for processing and testing hypotheses, linear regression and clustering methods are used. The study results showed that count of major shareholders and board independence have increasing and significant impact on financial constraints in companies listed in Tehran Stock Exchange.