Liu, Liyuan; Pantelous, Athanasios A.; Xie, Yuxin; Zheng, Lu - 2022
Using detailed mutual fund holdings in the US market, we estimate active mutual fund managers’ loss aversion as a … function of both funds’ past performance and asset allocations. We document a substantial variation in loss aversion over time …. We further find managers' loss aversion is higher when past fund flows were high and lower when past fund flows were …