The real effects of institutional spatial concentration

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1113-1167
Journal / PublicationFinancial Management
Volume50
Issue number4
Online published5 Mar 2021
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Abstract

We present evidence that spatially concentrated institutional investors enhance corporate innovation. These investors can coordinate more efficiently, leading to lower turnover of the holding firms’ stocks and more diversified portfolios, which enables the holding firms to increases corporate risk‐taking and focus more on long‐term investments. Consistent with this argument, we find that firms with spatially concentrated investors take higher risk, invest more heavily in innovative projects, generate more patents and have more patent citations. Our results are robust to using instrumental variables and the introduction of a new airline route as an exogenous shock to spatial concentration among institutional investors.

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  • spatial concentration, institutional investors, investor horizon, risk-taking, innovation

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The real effects of institutional spatial concentration. / Huang, Xiaoran; Qiao, Zheng; Zhang, Lei.
In: Financial Management, Vol. 50, No. 4, 2021, p. 1113-1167.

Research output: Journal Publications and ReviewsRGC 21 - Publication in refereed journalpeer-review