This paper empirically investigates the impact of foreign institutional investors on corporate dividend policy in the Korean stock market. Using sample firms whose ownership by foreign investors was 5% or higher through the fiscal period from 2001 to 2007, we find that foreign institutional...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the influence of the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investors (QFII) scheme announcement on the Chinese A- and B-share markets, using an event study method with the GARCH (Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity) process. The results...

From January 2002 to August 2007, foreign institutions held almost 70% of the free-float value of the Indonesian equity market, or 41% of the total market capitalization. Over the same period, liquidity on the Jakarta Stock Exchange improved substantially with the average bid-ask spread more...

Using a large sample of firms listed on the Korea Stock Exchange over 1998-2007, this study investigates whether and how trading by foreign and domestic institutional investors improves the extent to which firm-specific information is incorporated into stock prices, captured by stock price...