Extreme risk and small investor behavior in developed markets

Lorne Switzer, Jun Wang () and Seungho Lee ()
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Jun Wang: University of Western Ontario
Seungho Lee: Concordia University

Journal of Asset Management, 2017, vol. 18, issue 6, No 3, 457-475

Abstract: Abstract This paper examines the responses of small investors of ten developed markets as they are exposed to extreme risk. We focus on mutual fund flows that are induced by extreme market episodes (measured daily, weekly, and monthly) versus volatile periods captured by the traditional standard deviation metric. The extreme-day measure captures the behavior of small retail investors in the US and Canada better than the traditional standard deviation measure, based on funds flows to equity mutual funds. The evidence for the other countries of the study is mixed. Small investors in countries in the G-7 with more collective (as opposed to individualistic) cultures show less responses to changes in risk.

Keywords: volatility; extreme risk; small investor behavior (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: G11 G12 G15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1057/s41260-017-0047-6

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