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Showing 1 to 20 of 195 for “"Institutional investors"”.
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Essays on Institutional Investors
This dissertation analyzes the role of institutional investors in capital markets. The first essay studies what affect mutual fund decisions on hiring and firing sub-advisors and the ex-post effects. We show that deterioration in mutual fund performance or increase in outflows predicts a higher …
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Institutional Investors and Asset Prices
… of heterogeneity in the behavior of different institutional investors in financial markets. In particular, I show that (i) institutional investors respond to the incentives generated by their organizational structures, (ii) the strategy a particular institutional investor pursues depends on …
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Two essays on institutional investors
… by mutual funds. Consistent with active institutional influence, mutual funds are more likely to vote against management at portfolio firms that make more excess CEO pay or depict other symptoms of poor governance such as bad performance and CEO entrenchment. Both active and passive …
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Top Institutional Investors and Accounting Comparability
… that two firms that have the same top institutional investor (i.e., institutional investor with the largest shareholding) have higher accounting comparability than other firm pairs. I find evidence consistent with this hypothesis. In addition, firm-pairs whose top institutional …
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Korean institutional investors and real estate investments
Korean institutional investors comprise one of the major investor groups in the financial market. Given their characteristics and constraints, asset allocation of such institutional investors is dominated by 'traditional assets' such as stocks, bonds and cash. The recent global financial crisis …
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Three Essays on Corporate Governance and Institutional Investors
This dissertation analyzes the role of institutional investors in corporate governance. The first essay studies the effect of potential proxy contests on corporate policies. I find that when the likelihood of a proxy contest increases, companies exhibit increases in leverage, dividends, and CEO …
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The influence of institutional investors on firm value
… or even negative. In developed countries institutional investors have a significant stake in most of the companies. Active engagement by institutional investors is expected to decrease agency costs by strengthening monitoring mechanisms of operations and performance evaluations of the …
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Do Managers Learn From Institutional Investors Through Direct Interactions?
… private information impounded by informed investors’ trades. However, stock price is an indirect aggregate signal, which is likely to be insufficient for managerial learning. I propose that managers seek out direct interactions with institutional investors as a further mechanism to learn …
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Essays on institutional investors, central banks and asset pricing
… and financial stability. Specific features of institutional investors and central banks as well as their role in financial markets are reviewed and analyzed in Chapter 1. In Chapter 2, it is shown that the competitive pressure to beat a benchmark may induce institutional trading behavior that …
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Property management strategies for institutional investors in the '90s
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1996.
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Two Essays on Institutional Investors and U.S. Bank Holding Companies
This dissertation studies institutional investment in U.S. bank holding companies (BHCs). The first essay examines institutional investing preferences in U.S. banks and the impact of expansion of bank power on the preferences. Institutional investors prefer BHCs that hold more liquid assets, are …
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A Multivariate Analysis of Institutional Investors' Perception of Common Stock
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Corporate governance in South Africa : the role of institutional investors
… loss to shareholders have noted a change in investors' attitude towards this topic. Corporate governance has not only become important for the survival of companies in the global economy, a set corporate governance framework too is required to merely attract capital for start-ups. This study …
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Mezzanine financing in US real estate and Korean institutional investors
… lenders to fill the gap. Meanwhile, major Korean institutional investors, categorized into pension funds, mutual aid associations, life insurers and a sovereign wealth fund, had increasingly invested in foreign real estate, particularly in the form of equity investments in order to enhance …
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The impact of institutional investors on dividend policy in South Africa
… are more likely to pay out their free cash flow. Institutional investors may be great monitors given that they are professional investors with specialized expertise in evaluating firm's financial performance, management quality and governance. This study investigates the impact of institutional …
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Opportunities and Challenges in African Real Estate Markets: Perceptions of Institutional Investors
… primary opportunities and barriers perceived by institutional investors active in the African real estate market. The research is a qualitative, exploratory study into the perceptions of institutional investors on the African real estate environment. The findings are based on eleven …
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Beyond real estate : examining global real asset allocation frameworks for institutional investors
… long term value enhancement and to protect institutional investors against inflation risk. It is a typical real asset due to the physical form and fixed geographic location with a steady return. However, real estate has its limitations. Risks associated with it such as lack of trading …
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