Institutional Investors, information asymmetry and stock market liquidity in France

Sougné, Danielle; Aymen, Ajina; Faten, Lakhal

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Institutional Investors, information asymmetry and stock market liquidity in France

Sougné, Danielle; Aymen, Ajina; Faten, Lakhal

2015 • In International Journal of Managerial Finance, 11

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Information assymetry; Institutional Investors; Pension funds; Liquidity

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[en] The purpose of this paper is to examine the effect of institutional investor's ownership and type on information asymmetry and stock market liquidity in France.The findings show that the proportion of institutional investors has a positive and significant effect on stock-market liquidity, which confirms the signal theory and trading hypothesis. These investors perform high trading activity which favorably affects market liquidity. The results also show that pension funds improve liquidity. This result suggests that pension funds manage huge assets decreasing transactions costs and improving liquidity. They display a positive signal to the market about more transparency and a low level of information asymmetry.

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Finance

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Sougné, Danielle ; Université de Liège - ULiège > HEC-Ecole de gestion : UER > Gestion financière et consolidation

Aymen, Ajina

Faten, Lakhal

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English

Title :

Institutional Investors, information asymmetry and stock market liquidity in France

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January 2015

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International Journal of Managerial Finance

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1743-9132

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1758-6569

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Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, United Kingdom

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