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Passive Institutional Ownership, R 2 Trends, and Price Informativeness
Author(s) -
DeLisle R. Jared,
French Dan W.,
Schutte Maria Gabriela
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
financial review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.621
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1540-6288
pISSN - 0732-8516
DOI - 10.1111/fire.12132
Subject(s) - predictability , institutional investor , volatility (finance) , equity (law) , proxy (statistics) , earnings , stock (firearms) , economics , monetary economics , business , financial economics , corporate governance , finance , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , machine learning , political science , computer science , law , engineering
A distinctive trend in the capital markets over the past two decades is the rise in equity ownership of passive financial institutions. We propose that this rise has a negative effect on price informativeness. By not trading around firm‐specific news, passive investors reduce the firm‐specific component of total volatility and increase stock correlations. Consistent with this hypothesis, we find that the growth in passive institutional ownership is robustly associated with the growth in market model R 2 s of individual stocks since the early 1990s. Additionally, we find a negative relation between passive ownership and earnings predictability, an informativeness proxy.