This paper examines the role of foreign investors in promoting stock price efficiency in emerging stock markets relying on the fact that stock prices in these markets are influenced by both local and global factors. We employ a data sample of Vietnamese listed firms on the Ho Chi Minh City stock...

This study investigates the impact of foreign investors on the informational efficiency of stock prices in local markets. Using a large sample of Japanese firms over the period 1975 to 2008, we find that prices deviate less from a random walk for stocks with a large change in foreign ownership....

Using surveys of foreign exchange expectations, we document the emergence of a large gap between the beliefs of foreign banks and local-based institutions ahead of Brazil's 2002 presidential elections. That period was marked by a sudden stop in foreign capital flows and steep depreciation of...

Using sorting, cross-sectional tests, regression, and tests of a monotonic relation, the study examines the return patterns related to seven distinct quality characteristics: accruals, bid-ask spread, balance sheet liquidity, profitability, leverage, payout ratio and turnover. The investigation...

Using a large sample of firms listed on the Korea Stock Exchange over the 1992-2002 period, this paper investigates a hitherto unexplored question of whether and how trading by foreign and domestic institutional investors improves the extent to which firm-specific information is incorporated...

We investigate the role of Foreigners, local Institutions and local individuals in days of Contagion in a set of seven emerging markets from 2007 to 2016. We propose and use a simple measure of the degree of Contagion based on the probability of a coincidence of daily negative returns in both...

We investigate the role of Foreigners, local Institutions and local individuals in days of Contagion in a set of seven emerging markets from 2007 to 2016. We propose and use a simple measure of the degree of Contagion based on the probability of a coincidence of daily negative returns in both...

We investigate whether value-relevant foreign information only gradually dilutes into stock prices of multinational firms worldwide. Using an international sample of firms from 22 developed countries, we find that a portfolio strategy based on firms' foreign sales information yields future...

This paper empirically analyses the effect of foreign block acquisitions on the U.S. target firms' credit risk as captured by their CDS. The involvement of foreign investors leads to a significant increase in the target firms' CDS spreads. This effect is stronger when foreign owners are...

We investigate imitative herding and its effects on asset prices by examining how individual investors respond to a noisy signal regarding the positions of traders who they believe may possess valuable private information. We exploit a natural experiment in the Thai equity market, where a...