Amel-Zadeh, Amir; Kasperk, Fiona; Schmalz, Martin C. - 2022
We construct a novel data set to show that, between 2003-2020, up to one-fifth of America's largest firms had a non-financial blockholder or insider as their largest shareholder. Blockholders and insiders tend to be less diversified than institutional investors. Measures of "universal" and...