We introduce a new methodology to categorize institutional herding tendency and direction, that enhances the precision with which herders are identified at the institutional level. The herders are the ones that follow the crowd both on the buy and sell trades, whereas anti-herders are the...

Mutual fund industry in India has developed rapidly and gained a lot of popularity from the past couple of decade, especially after incorporation of Unit Trust of India in 1964. There has concomitantly evolved a rich plausible academic literature consisting of numerous topics related to mutual...

Analyses of zombie firms have emphasised the role of bank financing as the reason for zombie survival. This conclusion was made despite no comparative analysis of the sources of external finance for zombie firms. This paper provides the first analysis of that sort using Finnish data....