Institutional ownership and board governance. A structured literature review on the heterogeneous monitoring role of institutional investors

P Velte - Corporate Governance: THe International Journal of …, 2024 - emerald.com
Purpose This paper aims to review empirical research on the relationship between
institutional ownership (IO) and board governance (85 studies). Design/methodology …

Climate risk disclosure and institutional investors

E Ilhan, P Krueger, Z Sautner… - The Review of Financial …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Through a survey and analyses of observational data, we provide systematic evidence that
institutional investors value and demand climate risk disclosures. The survey reveals the …

[HTML][HTML] CEO compensation: Evidence from the field

A Edmans, T Gosling, D Jenter - Journal of Financial Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
We survey directors and investors on the objectives, constraints, and determinants of CEO
pay. We find that directors face constraints beyond participation and incentives, and that pay …

Applying economics—not gut feel—to ESG

A Edmans - Financial Analysts Journal, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Interest in environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues is at an all-time high.
However, academic research is still relatively nascent, often leading us to apply gut feel on …

Token-based crowdfunding: Investor choice and the optimal timing of initial coin offerings

W Drobetz, L Hornuf, PP Momtaz… - … Theory and Practice, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article examines the operating and financial performance of venture firms conducting
initial coin offerings (ICOs) with different types of investors and at different points along a …

[PDF][PDF] Where do institutional investors seek shelter when disaster strikes?: Evidence from covid-19

S Glossner, P Matos, S Ramelli, AF Wagner - 2020 - ecgi.global
During the COVID-19 market crash, US stocks with higher institutional ownership--in
particular, those held more by active, short-term, and more exposed institutions--performed …

Do institutional investors stabilize equity markets in crisis periods? Evidence from COVID-19

S Glossner, P Matos, S Ramelli… - Swiss Finance Institute …, 2022 - zora.uzh.ch
During the COVID-19 crash, US stocks with higher institutional ownership performed worse.
This under-performance is unrelated to revisions in earnings expectations, which suggests a …

Governance by persuasion: Hedge fund activism and market-based shareholder influence

A Brav, W Jiang, R Li - European Corporate Governance Institute …, 2021 - papers.ssrn.com
Hedge fund activism refers to the phenomenon where hedge fund investors acquire a strict
minority block of shares in a target firm and then attempt to pressure management for …

Symbolic shareholder democracy: Toward a behavioral understanding of the role of shareholder voting in CEO dismissals

AG Andrei, J Van Oosterhout… - Organization …, 2023 - pubsonline.informs.org
We investigate the effect of expressive shareholder dissent voting, in which shareholders
use their votes symbolically to express their discontent with management, on subsequent …

[PDF][PDF] The voting premium

D Levit, N Malenko, E Maug - 2023 - aeaweb.org
This paper develops a unified theory of blockholder governance and the voting premium. It
explains how a voting premium emerges when a minority blockholder tries to influence the …