This article analyses the trading activity of Taiwanese open-end equity mutual fund herding behaviour over the period of 1996--2008. We found evidence of both directional and directionless herding. We also found that sell-side fund herding leads to price stabilization, whereas buy-side herding...

This article extends previous work by testing the financial distress costs hypothesis in the context of the UK, a contract-based distress resolution system, and by considering the role of private equity firms. Using a hand-collected dataset covering 115 public-to-private buy-outs (PTPs)...