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Institutional Investors and Information Acquisition: Implications for Asset Prices and Informational Efficiency / Matthijs Breugem, Adrian Buss.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Breugem, Matthijs.
Contributor:
National Bureau of Economic Research.
Buss, Adrian.
Series:
Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w23561.
NBER working paper series no. w23561
Language:
English
Physical Description:
1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
Other Title:
Institutional Investors and Information Acquisition
Place of Publication:
Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2017.
Summary:
We jointly model the information choice and portfolio allocation problem of institutional investors who are concerned about their performance relative to a benchmark. Benchmarking increases an investor's effective risk-aversion, which reduces his willingness to speculate and, consequently, his desire to acquire information. In equilibrium, an increase in the fraction of benchmarked institutional investors leads to a decline in price informativeness, which can cause a decline in the prices of all risky assets and the market portfolio. The decline in price informativeness also leads to a substantial increase in return volatilities and allows non-benchmarked investors to substantially outperformed benchmarked investors.
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June 2017.

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