Evidence of herding and positive feedback trading for mutual funds in emerging Asian countries

Quantitative Finance

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 423-435

  Hsieh, Meng Fen ^a   Yang, Tzu Yi ^b   Yang, Yu Tai ^c   Lee, Jen Sin ^d  

^a NATIONAL TAICHUNG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b HWA HSIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^c CHUNG YUAN CHRISTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d I SHOU UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Behavioral effect; Financial crisis; Herding; Mutual fund; Positive feedback effect

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951586498     PISSN: 14697688     EISSN: 14697696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697688.2010.506882     Document Type: Article

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