The colors of investors’ money: The role of institutional investors around the world

By Miguel A. Ferreira, Pedro Matos. 2008

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Subfields: Accounting, Information Systems

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Gains from Mergers and Acquisitions Around the World: New Evidence (2010, methodology): “For UK evidence, see Firth (1980), Franks and Harris (1989), Faccio, McConnell, and Stolin (2006), and Draper and Paudyal (2006).”
The Determinants of Mutual Fund Performance: A Cross-Country Study (2013, background): “Golec (1996) and Carhart (1997) find that higher fees are associated with lower investment performance.”
Transparency and Liquidity Uncertainty in Crisis Periods (2011, background): “Dividing our sample by country-level institutional ownership, based on the data in Ferreira and Matos (2008), results are consistent with predictions.”
The Impact of Mandatory IFRS Adoption on Foreign Mutual Fund Ownership: The Role of Comparability (2011, neutral): “Our baseline regression model is as follows: Our regression model includes firm-level, country-level, and industry-level control variables used in prior research to explain mutual fund holdings (Bradshaw et al., 2004; Covrig et al., 2006, 2007; Ferreira and Matos, 2008; Florou and Pope, 2009).”
Are US CEOs Paid More? New International Evidence (2012, background): “22 Ferreira and Matos (2008) show that institutional ownership by U.”
The Role of State and Foreign Owners in Corporate Risk-Taking: Evidence from Privatization (2013, neutral): “Gillan and Starks (2003) and Ferreira and Matos (2008) provide supporting evidence that foreign owners play a more active role than local investors in advocating better firm-level governance, leading to positive performance outcomes, reached by undertaking risky investments.”
Do Locals Know Better? A Comparison of the Performance of Local and Foreign Institutional Investors (2017, methodology): “Ferreira and Matos (2008) use this data set to study the role of institutional investors in corporations around the world.”
Foreign institutional ownership and auditor choice: Evidence from worldwide institutional ownership (2018, neutral): “Our study investigates whether and how demand for higher-quality audits outside of the USA is affected by FIIs.”
Don't Believe the Hype: Local Media Slant, Local Advertising, and Firm Value (2012, positive): “Following others studying the determinants of firm value (e.g., Gompers, Ishii, and Metrick (2010) and Ferreira and Matos (2008)), we also use median regressions and use a transformation of Q: −1/Q.”
Directors’ and Officers’ Liability Insurance and Acquisition Outcomes (2011, positive): “15 FactSet compiles these data using a variety of sources, including company proxies and annual reports, public filings by institutional investors, mutual fund industry directories, and announcements by national regulatory agencies and stock exchanges, as described in Ferreira and Matos (2008).”
Country-Specific Sentiment and Security Prices (2011, neutral): “7 See http://www.geert-hofstede.com/.”