Why do foreign investors underperform domestic investors in trading activities? Evidence from Indonesia

Sumit Agarwal, Sheri Faircloth, Chunlin Liu and S. Ghon Rhee

Journal of Financial Markets, 2009, vol. 12, issue 1, 32-53

Abstract: Foreign investors generally underperform domestic investors in trading activities. This study shows that their inferior performance is attributable to non-initiated orders. Foreign investors actually perform better than domestic investors in initiated orders. In addition, their performance is also mixed when trades are classified depending on who the counterparties are. These mixed performances can be explained by neither the information disadvantage hypothesis proposed by [Dvorák, T., 2005. Do domestic investors have an information advantage? Evidence from Indonesia. Journal of Finance 60, 817-839.] nor the poor timing of trade hypothesis suggested by [Choe, H., Kho, B.C., Stulz, R., 2005. Do domestic investors have an edge? The trading experience of foreign investors in Korea. Review of Financial Studies 18, 795-829.]. We propose and confirm that their inferior performance is explained by their aggressive trading behavior. Three metrics we utilize to measure the aggressiveness of foreign investors' trading provide overwhelmingly strong evidence that foreign investors are more aggressive than their domestic counterparts.

Keywords: Trading; performance; Foreign; investor; Domestic; investor; Poor; timing; of; trade; hypothesis; Information; advantage; hypothesis; Aggressive; trading; hypothesis; Initiated; orders; Non-initiated; orders; Indonesian; stock; market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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