Institutional investors and corporate investment

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Using investors' trading horizons to capture their incentives to collect information and monitor management's decisions, this paper shows that an increase in the ownership stake held by long-term institutional investors is associated with a subsequent decrease in real investment precisely in firms that invest too much. In support of the monitoring hypothesis, we show that results are driven by the purchases of long-term investors, while quasi-indexers and short-term investors have no influence on investment. We address the potential problem of endogeneity using the inclusion of a firm to the S&P 500 Index as an exogenous shock to institutional holdings.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Sveriges Riksbank Working Paper Series ; No. 373

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Capital Budgeting; Fixed Investment and Inventory Studies; Capacity ; Financing Policy; Financial Risk and Risk Management; Capital and Ownership Structure; Value of Firms; Goodwill
• Subject: Institutional ownership ; investors' investment horizons ; over-investment ; under-investment ; management monitoring

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Cella, Cristina
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Sveriges Riksbank
• (where): Stockholm
• (when): 2019

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/215451
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET