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Do Foreign Investors Improve Market Efficiency? / Marcin Kacperczyk, Savitar Sundaresan, Tianyu Wang.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Kacperczyk, Marcin.
Contributor:
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Sundaresan, Savitar.
Wang, Tianyu.
Series:
Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w24765.
NBER working paper series no. w24765
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2018.
Summary:
We study the impact of foreign institutional investors on global capital allocation and welfare using novel firm-level international data. Using MSCI index inclusion as an exogenous shock to foreign ownership, we show that greater foreign ownership leads to more informative stock prices and this effect arises more from increased price efficiency than from improved firm governance. We further show that the impact of capital flows on price efficiency is due to real efficiency gains, as opposed to better information disclosure. Finally, we show that foreign ownership increases market liquidity, reduces firms' cost of equity, and leads to subsequent growth in their real investments, thus improving overall welfare.
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June 2018.

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