To be good or to be better: Asset managers' attitudes towards herding

Applied Financial Economics

Volumn 19, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 825-839

  Lütje, Torben ^a,b  

^a Deutsche Asset Management   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL SYSTEM; INVESTMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RISK FACTOR;

EID: 67650330876     PISSN: 09603107     EISSN: 14664305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09603100801964404     Document Type: Article

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