Institutional investors and stock market efficiency: The case of the January anomaly

Martin T. Bohl, Katrin Gottschalk, Harald Henke and Rozália Pál

No 2006,6, Working Paper Series from European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder), The Postgraduate Research Programme Capital Markets and Finance in the Enlarged Europe

Abstract: In this paper, we investigate the effect of institutional investors on the January stock market anomaly. The Polish and Hungarian pension system reforms and the associated increase in investment activities of pension funds are used as a unique institutional characteristic to provide evidence on the impact of individual versus institutional investors on the January effect. We find robust empirical results that the increase in institutional ownership has reduced the magnitude of an anomalous January effect induced by individual investors' trading behavior.

Keywords: Institutional Traders; Individual Investors; January Effect; Polish and Hungarian Pension Fund Investors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G14 G23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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