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

Journal of Financial Markets

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 32-53

  Agarwal, Sumit ^a,b   Faircloth, Sheri ^c   Liu, Chunlin ^c   Ghon Rhee, S ^d,e  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b INDIAN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Aggressive trading hypothesis; Domestic investor; Foreign investor; Indonesian stock market; Information advantage hypothesis; Initiated orders; Non initiated orders; Poor timing of trade hypothesis; Trading performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149289667     PISSN: 13864181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.finmar.2008.04.001     Document Type: Article

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