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Showing 1 to 20 of 2007 for “"Investors"”.
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Does Investors’ Belief on Other Investors’ Information Acquisition Affect Trading and Price?
I study how investors’ belief on other investors’ information acquisition about an asset affects trading and price, holding constant investors’ actual information acquisition. I hypothesize that the predictions depend on the trading strategy investors adopt, which is essentially determined by the …
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Essays on Institutional Investors
… 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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Foreign direct investment in Chicago real estate : are foreign investors different from domestic investors?
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Institutional Investors and Asset Prices
… 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 their skill, and …
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Investors' horizon and stock prices
… consists of three essays on the relation between investors' trading horizon and stock prices. The first chapter explores the theoretical relation between the horizon of traders and the negative externality generated by their activity on the information revealed by stock prices. The last two …
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Two essays on institutional investors
… Our findings help explain why institutional investors lend stocks. They also highlight a new source of short-sale constraints arising from the informed loan supply.
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Insider Share-Pledging and Firm Investors
… 2011, I examine how this phenomena affects firm investors and analyze agency conflicts between pledging managers and (a) outside shareholders, and (b) bondholders. Pledging potentially influences investor risk through changing managerial incentives and/or contingency risk from ill-timed margin …
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Top Institutional Investors and Accounting Comparability
… In addition, firm-pairs whose top institutional investors are monitoring institutions (regardless of whether they are the same institutions) exhibit greater comparability than other firm-pairs whose top institutional investors are non-monitoring institutions. Collectively, these findings …
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Three Studies Examining Nonprofessional Investors' Decision Making
… of three studies exploring nonprofessional investors' decision making. Technological advancements witnessed by the capital markets in recent years have caused significant changes to the dissemination and use of information, particularly by nonprofessional investors. Among these developments …
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Stokvels: bringing together borrowers, savers, and investors
… are borrowers who pay interest, and savers and investors who will receive interest on their savings. Four different evaluations were carried out on the system namely, (1) system testing, to evaluate the implemented features and their correctness, (2) a heuristic evaluation with a set of expert …
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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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Nudging Retail Investors towards Sustainable and Responsible Mutual Funds: A Study of Financial Advisors and Retail Investors in Hong Kong
… efforts paid by the government. Hong Kong retail investors also exhibited a seemingly lukewarm response towards sustainable and responsible mutual funds (SRMF). On the other front, many surveys suggested that the percentage of retail investors showing interest in SRI far outweighs the percentage …
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Impact of investors' mood on European stock markets
This thesis investigates into relationship of mood and stock markets. As proxies for mood we selected Daylight Savings Time changes, Lunar cycles and football results. Any abnormal returns on related days would present a challenge for Efficient Markets Hypothesis. We examine stock returns on …
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Three Essays on Corporate Governance and Institutional Investors
… 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 relevance and sustainability of Investors in People
Title: The relevance and sustainability of Investors in People. Purpose: The purpose of this research project is to explore and challenge the relevance and sustainability of Investors in People (IIP) involvement and recognition within seven case studies. Research design: Seven in-depth case studies …
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Is tax return information useful to equity investors?
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2019-05-01
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Do journalists help investors analyze firms' earnings news?
… my paper suggests media analysis also enhances investors' trading decisions by improving their understanding of earnings news, albeit for a limited set of large firms. In other words, journalists' analysis efforts provide value to readers, which helps explain the continued production of costly …
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The influence of institutional investors on firm value
… 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 management, …
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