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Institutional funds have concentrated ownership by a few institutional investors, infrequent outflows and essentially no leverage. Yet using unique granular data on the bond holdings of institutional funds, we show that their trading behavior is strongly procyclical: they actively move into...
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investors behaved more as in the momentum strategy; and after Black Monday more as in the contrarian strategy. We argue that …
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This study focuses on the diversification benefits of the most developed equity markets of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). To evaluate these benefits of diversification we use so-called spanning tests based on a stochastic discount factor approach and estimated by General Methods of Moments...
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We theoretically show that there is a fundamental disconnect be- tween the disposition effect, i.e., investors’ tendency to sell winning assets too early and losing assets too late, and its common empirical measure, namely a positive difference between the proportion of gains and losses re-...
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Recent empirical studies suggest a downward sloping term structure of Sharpe ratios. We present a theoretical framework in continuous time that can cope with such a non-flat forward curve of risk prices. The approach departs from an arbitrage-free and incomplete market setting when different...
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This paper investigates the dynamic linkages in terms of the first and second moments between stock and bond returns, within a wide range of advanced economies, over the different phases of the recent financial crisis. The adopted empirical framework is a bivariate volatility model, where...
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momentum and contrarian trading of different investor groups. Foreign investors and financial institutions, and especially … mutual funds, are momentum traders, whereas private households are contrarians. Contrarian trading by private households … momentum trading over time, we document substantial increase in sales of loser stocks by foreign and institutional investors …
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with cognitive dissonance theory, which predicts that assigning responsibility to the advisor helps investors resolve a …
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