Introduction to institutional investors in global capital markets / Narjess Boubakri, Jean-Claude Cosset, Hyacinthe Y. Somé -- Financial liberalization and foreign institutional investors : literature review / Gohar G. Stepanyan -- Institutional investment horizon and firm credit ratings / Najah Attig, Sadok El Ghoul, Omrane Guedhami -- Divestment of foreign strategic investment in China's banking sector : causes and consequences / Yuhua Li, Konari Uchida -- Domestic and foreign institutional investor behavior in China : financial characteristics and corporate governance / Don Bredin, Ningyue Liu -- Institutional investors' participation in foreign firms : evidence from ADRs / Narjess Boubakri, Olfa Hamza, Maher Kooli -- Do foreign institutional investors (FIIs) exhibit herding and positive feedback trading in Indian stock markets? / Mangesh Tayde, S.V.D. Nageswara Rao -- Do financial conglomerates have an incentive to prevent managers of other firms from pursuing their own interest? / Carlos Alves, Victor Mendes -- The impact of foreign government investments : sovereign wealth fund investments in the United States / Elvira Sojli, Wing Wah Tham -- What do sovereign wealth funds imply for financial stability? / Tao Sun, Heiko Hesse -- Africa's quest for development : can sovereign wealth funds help? / Thouraya Triki, Issa Faye -- Portfolio allocation for sovereign wealth funds in the shadow of commodity-based national wealth / Christopher Balding, Yao Yao -- Are sovereign wealth funds politically biased? : a comparison with other institutional investors / Rolando Avendaño, Javier Santiso -- Sovereign wealth fund acquisitions : a comparative analysis with mutual funds / Narjess Boubakri, Jean-Claude Cosset, Nabil Samir.

The edited volume on The Role of Institutional Investors in a Globalized Environment will publish original papers that examine various issues concerning the strategies of institutional investors, the role of institutional investors in corporate governance, their impact on local and international capital markets, as well as the emergence of sovereign and other asset management funds and their interactions with micro and macro economic and market environments including the impacts on international economic and market stability.

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