of foreign block ownership, at a broad set of publicly traded corporations. Disclosed institutional blockholders of every …This short technical report provides an empirical analysis of the level of institutional block ownership overall, and … company in the Standard & Poor's 500 index are analyzed, and the distribution of blockholders is presented. Blockholders are …

equity owned firms. Among public companies, purpose is lower for firms with high hedge fund ownership and higher for firms …

-financial blockholder or insider as their largest shareholder. Blockholders and insiders tend to be less diversified than institutional … investors. Measures of "universal" and "common" ownership of firms are therefore lower than previously believed based on … analyses of institutional investors' holdings alone, and the heterogeneity in ownership structures across firms is greater …

allows us to classify M&As into four categories, depending on the ownership of the acquirer and the target: 1) public re …

describe the post-privatization ownership structure and to test the effect of alternative privatization policies on firm … significant effect of private ownership share on the level and growth of labor productivity, the estimates ranging from 13 to 32 … and domestic blockholders, but insider and mass privatization are also estimated to have positive, although smaller …

Ceding ownership to outside investors provides a control dilemma for founders. In less developed capital markets with … weaker formal institutions, we argue that retained founder director ownership can lower the transaction costs of external … ownership reduces information asymmetry vis-à-vis outside minority investors. The reduced information asymmetry is even stronger …

We examine the incentive effects of private equity (PE) professionals' ownership in the funds they manage. In a simple … model, we show that managers select less risky firms and use more debt financing the higher their ownership. We test these … risk decreases and leverage increases with the manager's ownership in the fund, but largely only when scaled with her …