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Corporate managers often cite improved firm visibility as a motive for listing on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). We use three proxies to test this motive: the number of analysts following a firm, the number of institutional shareholders, and the number of shares held by institutions. We...
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Each year some corporate managers decide to change the listing of their firm's common stock from the American Stock Exchange (AMEX) to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). In making this decision to switch auction markets, managers presumably act in the best interests of their shareholders. The...
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type="main" <p>We examine the association between institutional ownership and defined benefit (DB) pension decisions. We find that institutional ownership is negatively associated with pension underfunding, opportunistic increases in the expected rate of return assumption in the presence of...</p>
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