We study multi-period trading strategies of institutional investors who plan to trade the same security during some finite time horizons. Investors who trade large volumes face a price impact that depends on their trading volumes simultaneously, and is usually represented as a function, the so called price-impact function. We show through a numerical example that a trading strategy, optimal for...

Large institutional investors own an increasing share of the equity markets in United States. The implications this development for financial are still unclear. paper presents novel empirical evidence that ownership by large institutions predicts higher volatility and greater noise stock prices as well fragility times crisis. When studying channel, we find exhibit traits granularity (i.e., subu...

Using a data set for 162 largest Hungarian firms during the period of 1994-1999 this paper explores the determinants of equity shares held by foreign investors and by Hungarian institutional investors.. We find evidence of a post-privatisation evolution towards more homogeneus equity structures, where dominant categories of owners aim at achieving controlling stakes. Here, the foreign investors...

Using a large sample of institutional investors’ private equity investments in venture and buyout funds, we estimate the extent to which investors’ skill affects returns from private equity investments. We first consider whether investors have differential skill by comparing the distribution of investors’ returns relative to the bootstrapped distribution that would occur if funds were randomly ...

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...