Do foreign investors destabilize stock markets? The Korean experience in 1997

Journal of Financial Economics

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 227-264

  Choe, Hyuk ^a   Kho, Bong Chan ^a   Stulz, René M ^b,c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

East Asian crisis; Foreign investors; G11; G15; G28; Herding; Positive feedback trading

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000759899     PISSN: 0304405X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0304-405x(99)00037-9     Document Type: Article

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