Institutional investor ownership and the firm value effect: evidence from Brazil

We analyze the influence of institutional investor ownership on Brazilian firm value using a database of equity holdings from 156 Brazilian listed companies, held by 2,019 institutional investors from 47 countries, during the period of 2009 to 2018. We find that firms with higher foreign and indepen...

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Autor: Pavan, Pedro Cesar Pestana
Tipo de recurso: tesis de maestría
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:Brasil
Institución:Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/28886
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10438/28886
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Institutional investors ownership
Firm value
Monitoring
Information asymmetries
Brazilian financial markets
Investidor institucional
Valor da empresa
Monitoramento
Assimetria de informações
Mercado financeiro brasileiro
Administração de empresas
Finanças
Empresas - Finanças
Empresas - Avaliação - Brasil
Investimentos institucionais
Informação assimétrica
Mercado financeiro - Brasil
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Sumario:We analyze the influence of institutional investor ownership on Brazilian firm value using a database of equity holdings from 156 Brazilian listed companies, held by 2,019 institutional investors from 47 countries, during the period of 2009 to 2018. We find that firms with higher foreign and independent institutions (investment advisors and hedge funds) ownership are more likely to have lower firm valuation. While, firms with higher domestic institutional investor ownership are more likely to have higher firm valuation. Finally, firms with higher ownership by dependent institutions (bank and trusts, pension funds, sovereign wealth funds) have no statistical relation with the firm value variation. Our results can be attributed to the evidences that, in Brazil, foreign and independent institutions encounter higher information costs, which can influence the firm value decrease. The opposite happens with domestic institutions.