Ownership structure, board characteristics and investors

Description

The purpose of the research project is to test a number of specific hypotheses related to the Swedish capital market and then mainly the stock market. An important sub-project is to investigate whether the liquidity of a share is related to the size of the number of outstanding shares and its "free float". A second study focuses on companies with share dividends that can be said to be sustainable. The composition of company boards with regard to size, gender, and shareholdings will be analyzed, as will the effects of institutional ownership in Swedish listed companies.

With access to unique data that reflects shareholding in Swedish companies, as well as access to detailed data that shows the composition of the board, a number of specific questions can be answered. For example, is the size of a company´s effective free float related to the liquidity of the stock ?; does the number of board members have any direct impact on the company´s value and does the composition, with regard to gender, play a role ?. By studying the size of institutional ownership but also new shareholders, new knowledge of trading activities is expected to be obtained.