The Impact of Institutional Investors on Economic Growth of European Countries

Institutional investors have an important place in current financial markets. The big amount of assets and the high expectations from retail investorsis putting a lot of pressure on their results. Our paper is based on financial and economic data of 45 European countries, for the period 1995...

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Main Author: Mihaela BRODOCIANU
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universitaria Publishing House 2019-11-01
Series:Finanţe: Provocările viitorului
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Online Access:http://www.financejournal.ro/fisiere/revista/36344766810.%20Brodocianu%20EN.pdf
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description Institutional investors have an important place in current financial markets. The big amount of assets and the high expectations from retail investorsis putting a lot of pressure on their results. Our paper is based on financial and economic data of 45 European countries, for the period 1995-2015. The scope of our study is to check if the presence of mutual funds, pension funds and insurance companies is important not only for financial development but also for economic growth, expressed as GDP growth per capita. Our results show a positive relation between the assets of institutional investors and GDP growth per capita and of all types of institutional investors, the highest impact is from insurance companies.
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spelling doaj.art-da208cbaf8ee40e29e3716650ac692fe2022-12-21T23:21:42ZengUniversitaria Publishing HouseFinanţe: Provocările viitorului1583-37121583-37122019-11-01121112119The Impact of Institutional Investors on Economic Growth of European CountriesMihaela BRODOCIANU0Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of IasiInstitutional investors have an important place in current financial markets. The big amount of assets and the high expectations from retail investorsis putting a lot of pressure on their results. Our paper is based on financial and economic data of 45 European countries, for the period 1995-2015. The scope of our study is to check if the presence of mutual funds, pension funds and insurance companies is important not only for financial development but also for economic growth, expressed as GDP growth per capita. Our results show a positive relation between the assets of institutional investors and GDP growth per capita and of all types of institutional investors, the highest impact is from insurance companies.http://www.financejournal.ro/fisiere/revista/36344766810.%20Brodocianu%20EN.pdfmutual fundspension fundsinsurance companiesfinancialdevelopmentgdp per capita
spellingShingle Mihaela BRODOCIANU
The Impact of Institutional Investors on Economic Growth of European Countries
Finanţe: Provocările viitorului
mutual funds
pension funds
insurance companies
financialdevelopment
gdp per capita
title The Impact of Institutional Investors on Economic Growth of European Countries
title_full The Impact of Institutional Investors on Economic Growth of European Countries
title_fullStr The Impact of Institutional Investors on Economic Growth of European Countries
title_full_unstemmed The Impact of Institutional Investors on Economic Growth of European Countries
title_short The Impact of Institutional Investors on Economic Growth of European Countries
title_sort impact of institutional investors on economic growth of european countries
topic mutual funds
pension funds
insurance companies
financialdevelopment
gdp per capita
url http://www.financejournal.ro/fisiere/revista/36344766810.%20Brodocianu%20EN.pdf
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