Combining data on high frequency trading (HFT) activities of a randomly selected sample of 120 stocks and data on institutional trades, I find that HFT increases the trading costs of traditional institutional investors. One standard deviation increase in the intensity of HFT activities increases institutional execution shortfall costs by a third. Further analysis suggests that HFT represents as...

Complex investments are investments that are difficult to value in the short-term. In this paper, we analyze the incentives of a manager who is compensated based on short-term stock prices to invest in complex long-term investments. In particular, we explore how the manager’s investment decision is affected by the presence of a large institutional shareholder whose horizon is finite. The analys...

This paper uses an equilibrium model to study how institutional investors in uence the volatility and the informativeness of asset prices. The growth in the proportion of U.S. equities owned by institutions in the past two decades, their resulting dominant position in nancial markets, and empirical evidence that institutional ownership may increase volatility warrant studying this issue from a ...

ing from the likely increase in saving and wealth, the implications of growth in institutions, notably life insurers and pension funds, for financing patterns arise from differences in behaviour from the personal sector, which would otherwise hold assets directly. As we showed in Tables 7-9, portfolios of long-term institutions vary widely, but in most cases, they hold a greater proportion of c...

From 1980 to 2005, institutional trading destabilizes stock prices. Specifically, stocks with herds of institutional buying in a given quarter suffer price declines of nearly three percent from four to eight quarters after the herding. Moreover, institutions do not suffer losses from the destabilization; they exit before prices reverse. These results extend the “riding the bubble” findings of B...