This paper examines the relationship between the stock crash risk of REITs and different types of institutional investors. First, when we classify REIT institutional investors by their legal type, we find that the ownership of pension funds (bank trusts) is negatively (positively) related to REIT crash risk. In addition, the trading of investment companies, including mutual funds, has become po...

Based on the Chinese IPO book building mechanism as the background, the paper chooses the market-oriented period (from November,2010 to April,2012) of the IPOs as the samples, and studies the relationship between the collusive behavior, institutional investors’ bidding behavior and underwriters’ pricing strategy(as well as the post-IPO performance). The results show that: Firstly, in the case o...

The purpose of the present paper is that of researching the impact of corporate governance on financial performance, on a sample of 3 companies (Tamin Petroleum & Petrochemical Investment Co., Persian Gulf Petrochemical Industries Company and Parsian Oil and Gas Development Group), mainly from the chemical industry area, listed at Tehran Stock Exchange index, during the period 2011-2016. In thi...

a r t i c l e i n f o Using high frequency intraday data, this paper investigates the herding behavior of institutional and individual investors in the Taiwan stock market. The study finds evidence of herding by both investors but a stronger herding tendency among institutional than among individual investors. Institutional investors herd more on firms with small capitalizations and lower turno...