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posted on 2020-07-30, 13:08 authored by Yawen Hudson, Meilan YanMeilan Yan, Dalu ZhangThe aims of this paper are to detect evidence of institutional investor herding behaviour and examine the role that investor sentiment plays in institutional investor herding behaviour. The herding behaviour is investigated by examining the dispersion of time varying beta of UK open-end and closed-end funds. The study finds evidence of fund managers' herding behaviour, which suggests they are likely to herd on market portfolio, size, and value factors. UK market-wide investor sentiment index is used for investigating the effects of investor sentiment on institutional herding behaviour. We find a unidirectional investor sentiment effect on the herding of UK mutual fund managers. We also reveal that the sentiment factors affecting UK open-end and closed-end fund managers herding behaviour are different due to the differences in fund structure.
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- Business and Economics
Department
- Economics
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International Review of Financial AnalysisVolume
71Publisher
Elsevier BVVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This paper was accepted for publication in the journal International Review of Financial Analysis and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irfa.2020.101494.Acceptance date
2020-03-27Publication date
2020-05-15Copyright date
2020ISSN
1057-5219Publisher version
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- en