This paper examines whether and how institutional investment horizon influences corporate financing decisions. Consistent with our predictions, we find that longer institutional investment horizon is negatively associated with the likelihood that a firm issues equity and debt, and with the...

Nicolai C. Striewe analyzes potential opportunistic behavior of REIT managers and provides empirical evidence on the effectiveness of institutional monitoring as a corporate governance mechanism. The author also suggests ways to promote sustainable management by means of institutional...