We study the effect of investor horizons on corporate cash holdings. We argue that investors with longer horizons monitor more because their net benefit of monitoring is higher. Consequently, the optimal amount of corporate cash holdings increases, so firms hold more cash. We find empirical...

We study the effect of investor horizons on corporate behavior. We argue that longer investor horizons attenuate the effect of stock mispricing on corporate policies. Consistent with our argument, we find that when a firm is undervalued, greater long-term investor ownership is associated with...

The impact of liquidity-motivated institutional trading on firms' real decisions is not confined to periods of financial crises. Firms subject to mutual fund flow-driven selling pressure reduce share issuance and investment, whereas firms experiencing buying pressure do not increase investment,...

We investigate the relationship between corporate social performance and institutional ownership. We distinguish between long-term and short-term institutional investors using holdings-based measures which directly capture the investment horizon of each institution. Our analysis shows that long...

Trillions of dollars are invested through index funds, exchange-traded funds, and other index derivatives. The benefits of index-linked investing are well-known, but the possible broader economic consequences are unstudied. I review research which suggests that index-linked investing is...

This paper is a sequel to the “Sustainable Investment in Turkey, 2010” report (IFC, 2011). The original report provided a review of the then current state of the sustainable investment (SI) in Turkey and analysed the institutional prerequisites and interventions that would encourage better...

We investigate the influence of simultaneous equity holding by large creditors (dual holders) on investment efficiency in U.S. public firms. Such creditors have stronger incentives and power to monitor firm investment as they have cash flow and control rights from both the debt and the equity...

This paper exploits the 2003 mutual fund trading scandal to investigate firms’ seemingly myopic investment behavior following negative stock price shocks. Firms affected by the scandal are more likely to meet or marginally beat earnings targets by cutting research and development and other...

Using a sample of 1,705 convertible bonds issued by manufacturing and service companies from the United States (1,138 issues); Europe (270); and Asia (297) between 2004 and 2014 this paper investigates the role of callable convertibles in the corporate investment process. This research shows...

Failure to correct for pension risk leads to upward-biased discount rate estimates in firms with pension risk exposure. The result is a negative and economically significant relation between pension risk and corporate investment. The effect is confined to investment decisions that require...