Congratulations to Assistant Professor David Schumacher of Finance on receiving NFA 2016 Best Paper Award on ETFs in Asset Management

Congratulations to Assistant Professor David Schumacher of Finance on receiving NFA 2016 Best Paper Award on ETFs in Asset Management for "Who is afraid of BlackRock?".

Authors: Schumacher, D., Wang, Y., Massa, M.

Publication: Social Science Research Network 

Abstract: 

We use the merger of BlackRock with Barclays Global Investors to study how changes in ownership concentration affect the investment behavior of financial institutions and the cross-section of stocks worldwide. We find that other institutions begin avoiding stocks that experience a merger-related increase in ownership concentration. As a result, affected stocks experience a permanent and negative price, liquidity and volatility impact. We confirm these effects in a large sample of asset management mergers over a ten year period. The interpretation that institutions strategically avoid stocks with an elevated risk of future fragility enjoys the strongest support in the data.

Read full article: Social Science Research Network, May 27, 2016