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This paper documents the tendency of mutual fund managers to follow analyst recommendation revisions when they trade stocks, and the impact of analyst revisioninduced mutual fund "herds" on stock prices. We find that mutual fund herds follow consensus revisions in analyst recommendations,...
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Dieses Papier beschäftigt sich mit dem Herdenverhalten (“Herding”) vonInvestmentfondsmanagern in Folge von Analystenempfehlungen. Dabei wird zunächstuntersucht, ob sich überhaupt ein gleichgerichtetes Verhalten der Fondsmanager nachVeröffentlichung einer Analystenempfehlung beobachten...
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Mutual funds experiencing large outflows (inflows) tend to decrease (expand) their positions, creating downward (upward) price pressure in the stocks held in common by them (Coval and Stafford [2007]). This study shows that corporate insiders exploit the resulting mispricing by buying (selling)...
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Theories of herding behavior predict that only investors with sufficiently precise private information or those most overconfident will deviate from the crowd. Using portfolio holdings, this paper identifies contrarian funds as those pursuing distinctive investment strategies, i.e., as those...
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This paper illustrates the unique role of sell-side analysts in improving market efficiency by examining their responses to mutual fund flow-driven mispricing. We find that a select group of analysts persistently issue price-correcting recommendation changes for stocks subject to flow-driven...
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We examine how boards decide on CEO compensation depending on how informative stock prices are. In order to mitigate the endogeneity of board decisions, we use extreme mutual fund flow-driven trading pressure as an exogenous shock to stock price informativeness. Consistent with informed boards...
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