Franck, Alexander; Walter, Andreas - In: Kredit und Kapital 45 (2012) 3, pp. 343-371
Portfolio Complexity and Herd Behavior: Evidence from the German Mutual Fund Market We examine the herd behavior among equity funds in Germany based on a large sample of funds from 2000 to 2009. We show that a large portion of the detected herding can be explained by identical trading among...