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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Institutional trading"”.
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Corporate Governance and Institutional Trading
<p>This dissertation includes two parts. The first part examines the preventive effect of hedge fund activism against corporate policy deviations. Using stock liquidity and mutual fund fire sales as instruments, I find that when the likelihood of hedge fund activism increases, firms respond by …
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Essays on Factor Models
… chapter identifies the origins of covariance in institutional trading. Conceptually, we introduce two perspectives: the asset perspective, which prioritizes assets as the key market fundamentals, and the manager perspective, which prioritizes fund managers as the key market fundamentals that …
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An investigation of stock market volatility in Chinese stock markets and the effects of institutional investors
… in Chinese stock markets and the effects of institutional investors.;Chapter 2 focuses on the key characteristics of China's stock market that the volatility of stock returns tends to be greater, and to persist for longer, than is typical in 'western' markets. We provide persuasive arguments …
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The relationship between investor holding period, and stock and stockholder characteristics
… the proportion of trades effected by large institutional investors. The empirical results support the overreaction hypothesis which assumes that some investors are overly optimistic about firms which have done well in the past, and are overly pessimistic about those that have done poorly. …
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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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Essays on Asset Pricing
… the second chapter examines whether and how institutional investors trade to profit, and thereby to mitigate these anomalies. Consistent with the literature, I find that institutions in aggregate do not trade to take advantage of most of these cross-sectional return predictabilities. However, …
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Investment manager trading behaviour and fund performance
… investigates three types of investment manager trading behaviour to ascertain whether behavioural biases are present in the Australian investment management industry. In particular, this thesis examines whether these biases are detrimental to fund performance and market efficiency, and whether …
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Essays on derivatives markets and systemic risk
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Kleinhandel unter schwierigen institutionellen Voraussetzungen – Reaktionen, Strategien und Lösungen der Händler auf dem Chisokone-Markt in Kitwe/Sambia
… on the response mechanisms of small traders to trading venues which are subject to constant change. The frequently occurring assumption that informal trade predominantly takes place without any institutional frame, quasi in a free space without regulation by an institution, is only partly …