Institutional investors heterogeneity and firm valuation: evidence from Latin America

This article analyses how the corporate valuation of Latin American firms is affected by the presence of a blockholder institutional investor. The study uses a data set of 562 firms from six Latin American countries for the 1997¿2011 period. We found that the presence of an institutional investor ha...

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Autores: De la Hoz, M.C., Pombo, C.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:Colombia
Institución:Universidad de los Andes
Repositorio:Séneca: repositorio Uniandes
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.uniandes.edu.co:1992/46939
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/1992/46939
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1566014115000679
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Institutional investors
Firm valuation
Latin America
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Sumario:This article analyses how the corporate valuation of Latin American firms is affected by the presence of a blockholder institutional investor. The study uses a data set of 562 firms from six Latin American countries for the 1997¿2011 period. We found that the presence of an institutional investor has a positive effect of 8% on firm value, which increases to 21% for the cases where there is blockholder coalition with an institutional investor. After dividing the sample by investor type, we found that independent institutional ownership implies a positive premium on firms' Tobin's Q, while the presence of a grey investor has a negative effect on firm valuation.