Together we invest? Individual and institutional investors' trading behaviour in Poland

Christiane Goodfellow, Martin T. Bohl and Bartosz Gebka

International Review of Financial Analysis, 2009, vol. 18, issue 4, 212-221

Abstract: This paper contributes to the debate about individual and institutional investors' trading behaviour with new evidence from the Polish stock market. While most existing studies focus on institutional investors' trading in developed markets, we test for the presence of herding during market up- and downswings on an emerging market. Our unique approach is to combine an established method relying on daily prices with institutional features of the Warsaw Stock Exchange. It enables us to separate individuals from institutions by examining two trading mechanisms with different investor structures. The empirical results suggest that individuals engage in herding during market downswings, while there is less evidence of imitating trading behaviour in bullish markets. Regardless of the state of the market, institutions' trading behaviour does not appear to exhibit herd behaviour. Further evidence suggests that herding by individuals becomes less pronounced over time.

Keywords: Herding; Behavioural; finance; Market; microstructure; Polish; stock; market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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