Short-term herding of institutional traders: New evidence from the German stock market

Stephanie Kremer and Dieter Nautz

No 2011-015, SFB 649 Discussion Papers from Humboldt University Berlin, Collaborative Research Center 649: Economic Risk

Abstract: This paper employs a new and comprehensive data set to investigate short-term herding behavior of institutional investors. Using data of all transactions made by financial institutions in the German stock market, we show that herding behavior occurs on a daily basis. However, in contrast to longer-term herding measures obtained from quarterly data, results based on daily data do not indicate that short-term herding tends to be more pronounced in small capitalized stocks or in times of market stress. Moreover, we find that herding measures based on anony- mous transactions can lead to misleading results about the behavior of institutional investors during the recent financial crisis.

Keywords: herding; investor behavior; institutional trading; anonymous transaction data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D81 G11 G24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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