In Safe Hands: The Financial and Real Impact of Investor Composition over the Credit Cycle.

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Názov: In Safe Hands: The Financial and Real Impact of Investor Composition over the Credit Cycle.
Autori: Coppola, Antonio1 (AUTHOR)
Zdroj: Review of Financial Studies. Aug2025, Vol. 38 Issue 8, p2275-2325. 51p.
Predmety: *CORPORATE bonds, *BOND prices, *INVESTORS, *CAPITAL allocation, *MUTUAL funds, *INSURANCE companies, CRISES
Abstrakt: I show that investor composition affects bond price dynamics and capital allocation during crises. Using large-scale holdings data and within-firm ownership variation across near-identical bonds, I causally identify bond returns' investor composition elasticities. Corporate bonds held predominantly by insurers rather than mutual funds suffer milder losses in downturns: increasing insurer holdings by half a bond's size causes 20% shallower drawdowns. A shift-share instrument isolates variation from large insurers' idiosyncratic primary-market allocations. Differences in intermediaries' liability structures drive these results, which hold across countries. During crises, firms with more stable bondholders maintain higher borrowing at lower cost and invest more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstrakt:I show that investor composition affects bond price dynamics and capital allocation during crises. Using large-scale holdings data and within-firm ownership variation across near-identical bonds, I causally identify bond returns' investor composition elasticities. Corporate bonds held predominantly by insurers rather than mutual funds suffer milder losses in downturns: increasing insurer holdings by half a bond's size causes 20% shallower drawdowns. A shift-share instrument isolates variation from large insurers' idiosyncratic primary-market allocations. Differences in intermediaries' liability structures drive these results, which hold across countries. During crises, firms with more stable bondholders maintain higher borrowing at lower cost and invest more. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:08939454
DOI:10.1093/rfs/hhaf017