In this paper, we examine how the cash holdings have an impact on R&D expenditures and whether the ownership mechanisms moderate the R&D expendituresthe resource of internal funds relationship. The result showed that cash holdings have a positively relationship with R&D expenditures. Specially, we found that institutional ownership had a positive moderating effect of the R&D expenditures-the re...

We examine how the ownership, analyst coverage and stock market valuation of a sample of U.S. firms vary with their environmental performance. Both “green” and “toxic” firms have a larger number of shareholders but a smaller percentage of institutional owners and ownership stakes relative to environmentally neutral firms. Nonetheless, toxic firms have higher institutional ownership than green f...

This study tests two opposing views of institutional investors—monitoring versus expropriation--by investigating whether institutional ownership is positively or negatively related to future firm-specific stock price crash risk. We present robust evidence that institutional ownership is positively associated with future stock price crash risk. After further classifying institutional investors i...

Firms with high levels of institutional ownership are more likely to be acquired. This paper shows that this positive correlation is due to ownership endogeneity. Institutional investors are better informed investors and buy acquisition targets (“selection”). After controlling for this ownership endogeneity, the presence of institutional investors reduces the probability of being acquired. Evid...

This study examines the association between different institutional investors’ ownership and earnings management practice using a neural networks approach. It investigates this relationship for a sample of 121 US firms. We examine also the effect of institutional ownership on the level of accruals management of firms having different information environment (S&P 500 versus non S&P 500). Results...

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We examine institutional investor demand for stocks that are categorized as mispriced according to twelve well-known pricing anomalies. We find that institutional demand prior to anomaly portfolio formation is typically on the wrong side of the anomalies’ implied mispricing. That is, we find increases in institutional ownership for overvalued stocks and decreases in institutional ownership for ...