Franck, Alexander; Walter, Andreas - 2012 - This draft: February 2012
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 funds of the same investment … company. However, we also find statistically significant stock herding among funds belonging to different fund families. In …