Investor Sentiment and the Closed-End Fund Puzzle

Charles Lee, Andrei Shleifer and Richard Thaler

No 3465, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper examines the proposition that fluctuations in discounts on closed end funds are driven by changes in individual investor sentiment toward closed end funds and other securities. The theory implies that discounts on various funds must move together, that new funds get started when seasoned funds sell at a premium or a small discount, and that discounts on the funds fluctuate together with prices of securities affected by the same investor sentiment. The evidence supports these predictions. In particular, we find that discounts on closed end funds narrow when small stocks do well, as would be expected if closed end funds were subject to the same sentiment as small stocks, whim tern. also to be held by individual investors. The evidence thus suggests that investor sentiment affects security returns.

Date: 1990-10
Note: ME
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Published as Journal of Finance, March 1991. Reprinted in R. Thaler, ed., Quasi-Rational Econmics, Russell Sage Foudation 1991.

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