Although recent research show that institutional informed trading can spur CEOs to work harder and reduce agency costs even for firms with dispersed ownership structure, it leaves unaddressed the ultimate impact of informed trading on firm value. This paper provides empirical evidence and finds...

We replicate and extend the methodology of Grinblatt and Keloharju (2000) to find that foreign institutional investors in Finland no longer achieve superior performance. This is despite their persistence in adopting ‘positive-feedback' trading strategies. We find that individuals and...

This paper examines the magnitude and determinants of trading costs for small-cap funds in Australia. The total price impact for these funds is 0.99% (-0.34%) for purchases (sales). This is considerably larger than costs reported in prior literature. Both purchases and sales exhibit price...