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Institutional Investors as Blockholders

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2010
Pichhadze (2010) introduced the Market Oriented Blockholder Model (MOBM) as properly describing the ownership pattern in the American equity markets. Under the model, the emerging blockholder in the American equity markets is the institutional investor (II).
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Does Contract Farming Improve Diet Quality? The Case of Senegalese Smallholders

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The institution of contract farming has gained prominence in most developing countries owing to its numerous benefits. While several studies have already highlighted the welfare benefits of contract farming, very few have investigated the effects on diet quality, despite poor quality diets being a serious challenge in most parts of the ...
Francis E. Ndip, Takeshi Sakurai
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Relationship between Institutional Investors and Earnings Quality [PDF]

مطالعات تجربی حسابداری مالی, 2010
Earnings quality is discussed by multiple dimensions. The purpose of this paper is to study the relationship between institutional investors and earnings quality using the Financial Accounting Standards Board's conceptual framework (including, Predictive
S.H. Sajadi, R. Takor, A. Mahmoudi
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Foreign Institutional Investors: Fair-Weather Friends or Smart Traders? [PDF]

J Quant Econ, 2021
Venkatesh H, Kumari J, Hiremath GS, Roy H.   +3 more
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Linking institutional investors to communities [PDF]

Public pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, and universities increasingly pursue community investments because they deliver on twin goals: high financial returns and economic growth in underserved areas.
Anna Steiger
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Farmers' Participation in Messenger‐Based Social Groups And Its Effects on Performance in Irrigated Areas of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in farming communities is increasing the use of smartphone‐based instant messaging apps. Despite this, the reasons behind participation and the impact on farm productivity in developing countries remain unexplored.
Zafar Kurbanov, Abdusame Tadjiev, Nodir Djanibekov, Ajit Govind, Akmal Akramkhanov   +4 more
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Institutional investors and cost of capital: The moderating effect of ownership structure. [PDF]

PLoS One, 2021
Huo X, Lin H, Meng Y, Woods P.
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Drivers of Farmers' Contract Compliance Behavior: Evidence From a Case Study of Dangote Tomato Processing Plant in Northern Nigeria

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Contract farming is a viable strategy agribusinesses rely on to strengthen coordination across actors in the value chain. However, low contract compliance remains a significant setback to agribusinesses' contract performance in low‐ and middle‐income country context.
Umar Shehu Umar, Sanzidur Rahman, Giacomo Zanello   +2 more
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Comparing factors affecting Chinese institutional investors’ willingness to pay for green bonds in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen

Cogent Business & Management
Previous studies on green bonds (GBs) in China have not extensively analyzed how investor characteristics such as demographic background and environmental concerns affect Chinese investors’ decisions to invest in GBs.
Yoshihiro Zenno, Kentaka Aruga
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Stock Return Seasonalities and Investor Structure: Evidence from China’s B-Share Markets [PDF]

This paper investigates whether seasonalities in daily stock returns are related to the trading behavior of individual and institutional investors. The change in the investor structure of B-share markets in Shanghai and Shenzhen after the abolition of ...
Martin T. Bohl, Michael Schuppli, Pierre L. Siklos   +2 more
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