This study extends the herding measures proposed by Warmers (1999), Lakonishok, Shleifer and Vishny (1992) and Borensztein and Gaston (2003) for stocks overbought and oversold by institutional investors as well as the information content related to institutional herding proposed by Nofsinger and...

This paper analyses the types of stocks herded by foreign institutional investors (FIIs) with higher positive abnormal returns in the emerging stock markets. Using a panel smooth transition regression (PSTR) model, we demonstrate that the positive price impact of the herd buying patterns of FIIs...

We use a dynamic herding measure to explore the causes of foreign institutional investor (FII) herding in the Taiwan stock market and examine the effects of stock characteristics on the direction and extent of such herding. We find that FII herding primarily results from cascades rather than...