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  • May 2007
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Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Investment; Policy; Corporate Finance
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Baker, Malcolm, Joshua Coval, and Jeremy Stein. "Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance." Journal of Financial Economics 84, no. 2 (May 2007): 266–298.
  • 2005
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Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Behavior; Stocks; Mergers and Acquisitions; Policy; Investment; Financial Institutions; Equity; Corporate Finance
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Baker, Malcolm, Joshua Coval, and Jeremy Stein. "Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance." NBER Working Paper Series, April 2005. (First Draft in 2004.)
  • September – October 2011
  • Article

The Return Experience of Hedge Fund Investors

By: Ilia Dichev and Gwen Yu
Keywords: Investment
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Dichev, Ilia, and Gwen Yu. "The Return Experience of Hedge Fund Investors." World Financial Review (September–October 2011).
  • 1993
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Mobile Exporters: New Foreign Investors in East Asia

By: L. T. Wells Jr.
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Trade; Asia
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Wells, L. T., Jr. "Mobile Exporters: New Foreign Investors in East Asia." In Foreign Direct Investment, edited by K. Froot, 173–91. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • News

Activist Investors Are Shaking Up Business Schools, Too

  • 05 Jun 2015
  • News

How Banking Analysts’ Biases Benefit Everyone Except Investors

  • 25 Feb 2009
  • News

Investors say leverage critical to US toxic fund

  • 25 Aug 2009
  • News

As more banks fail, private investors gain favor

  • 25 Jul 2011
  • News

With Washington at Impasse, Worry Over Investor Reaction

  • 20 Jul 2020
  • News

Investors line up for the post-pandemic green recovery

  • 04 Jun 2020
  • News

ESG investors get their heads around social risks

  • 19 Dec 2017
  • News

What Investors Need to Consider About Tax Reform

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Accounting, Tax, Bookkeeping, Payroll Services; Professional Services
  • 2003
  • Working Paper

International Capital Flows When Investors Have Local Information

By: Joshua D. Coval
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Coval, Joshua D. "International Capital Flows When Investors Have Local Information." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 04-026, November 2003.
  • 27 Aug 2019
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Buoyant economy sending positive signals to global investors

  • 17 Jun 2016
  • News

Investors back rivals Uber and Didi, raising eyebrows

  • 14 Jul 2017
  • News

The Versatile D.C. Investor with a Buzzy Nonprofit

  • 23 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules

Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • May 2017
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Distracted Shareholders and Corporate Actions

By: Elisabeth Kempf, Alberto Manconi and Oliver Spalt
Investor attention matters for corporate actions. Our new identification approach constructs firm-level shareholder "distraction" measures, by exploiting exogenous shocks to unrelated parts of institutional shareholders' portfolios. Firms with "distracted" shareholders... View Details
Keywords: Investors; Business and Shareholder Relations; Executive Compensation; Stocks; Mergers and Acquisitions
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Kempf, Elisabeth, Alberto Manconi, and Oliver Spalt. "Distracted Shareholders and Corporate Actions." Review of Financial Studies 30, no. 5 (May 2017): 1660–1695.
  • 2010
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The Euro as a Reserve Currency for Global Investors

By: Luis M. Viceira and Ricardo Gimeno
This article explores the demand for the euro for risk management purposes and the evidence of stock market integration in the euro area. We define a reserve currency as one that investors demand either because it helps them hedge real interest risk and inflation risk,... View Details
Keywords: Volatility; Inflation and Deflation; Capital Markets; Currency; Stocks; Financial Markets; Financing and Loans; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Risk Management
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Viceira, Luis M., and Ricardo Gimeno. "The Euro as a Reserve Currency for Global Investors." Chap. 4 in Spain and the Euro. The First Ten Years, 149–178. Madrid, Spain: Banco de España, 2010.
  • 2012
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What Are We Meeting For? The Consequences of Private Meetings with Investors

By: Eugene F. Soltes and David H. Solomon
Executives of publicly-traded firms spend considerable time meeting privately with investors, despite regulation restricting their ability to convey material nonpublic information. Using a set of records of all one-on-one meetings between senior management and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Investment Funds; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Management Teams; Public Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations
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Soltes, Eugene F., and David H. Solomon. "What Are We Meeting For? The Consequences of Private Meetings with Investors." September 2012.
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