This paper employs a new and comprehensive data set to investigate short-term herding behavior of institutional … investors. Using data of all transactions made by financial institutions in the German stock market, we show that herding … behavior occurs on a daily basis. However, in contrast to longer-term herding measures obtained from quarterly data, results …

This paper sheds new light on herding of institutional investors by using a unique and superior database that … identifies every transaction of financial institutions. First, the analysis reveals herding behavior of institutions. Second, the …, indicates an overestimation of herding by previous studies. Third, our results suggest that herding by large financial …

bigger herds of funds selling. Our most important finding is that mutual fund herding impacts stock prices to a much larger … recommendation revisions. An investment strategy that accounts for the direction of both analyst revisions and mutual fund herding … results remain robust when we condition fund herding on analyst earnings forecast revisions instead of recommendation …