Results 101 to 110 of about 359,039 (200)

The Risk Tolerance of International Investors [PDF]

open access: yes
Investor confidence and risk tolerance are important concepts that investors are constantly trying to gauge. Yet these concepts are notoriously hard to measure in practice.
Kenneth A. Froot, Paul G. J. O'Connell
core  

Institutional Investors and Stock Market Volatility [PDF]

open access: yes
We present a theory of excess stock market volatility, in which market movements are due to trades by very large institutional investors in relatively illiquid markets. Such trades generate significant spikes in returns and volume, even in the absence of
H. Eugene Stanley   +3 more
core  

The use of"asset swaps"by institutional investors in South Africa [PDF]

open access: yes
Leading financial economists have proposed the use of international asset swaps (Merton 1990, Bodie and Merton 2002) as a way of efficiently achieving international diversification without eroding the level of foreign exchange reserves and weakening ...
Dimitri Vittas
core  

Institutional Ownership and Firm Performance: Evidence from Finland [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper investigates the relationship between different classes of institutional investors and firm performance. Using industry level data from Finland, which is characterized by various institutional investors who own multiple ownership stakes in ...
Michael Graham, Prasad S. Bhattacharya
core  

Relationship Finance by Banks and Non-Bank Institutional Investors: A Review within the Theory of the Firm [PDF]

open access: yes
In continental Europe, banks are more and more replaced by non-bank institutional investors in the financing and control of firms. This must not imply a shift to arm's length finance, if these institutional investors develop relationships with firms ...
Doris Neuberger, Ettore Andreani
core  

Investment behaviors of the key actors in capitalism: when geography matters [PDF]

open access: yes
The article investigates the geography of finance via an analysis of the investment behavior of large international equity investors. The main argument is based on the importance of financial markets and capital flows and on the central role played in ...
Claude DUPUY (GREThA)   +1 more
core  

Owners, traders and providers of capital: the multiple faces of institutional investors [PDF]

open access: yes
We draw on a series of in-depth interviews with senior fund managers and senior company executives to explore how different and often-contradictory conceptualizations of institutional investors, their role in the corporate governance process, and their ...
John Hendry   +3 more
core  

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy