This paper considers the role of foreign investors in developed country equity markets. It presents a quantitative model of trading that is built around two new assumptions about investor sophistication: (i) both the foreign and domestic populations contain investors with superior information sets; and (i i) these knowledgeable investors have access to both public equity markets and private inv...

This paper examines the role of experts in an online crowdfunding market. Using a novel data set on individual investments in a crowdfunding market for mobile applications, we investigate whether early investments serve as signals of quality for later investors, and if the value of these signals differs depending on the identity of early investors. We find that while early investors have a sign...

We examine herding behavior of domestic and foreign investors in the Indonesian stock market. We document that both domestic and foreign investors from a particular brokerage firm tend to herd. The foreign investors exhibit a greater propensity to herd than domestic investors. However, when examining investor trading across brokerage firms, we find only weak evidence of herding by domestic inve...

This paper examines the preferences of foreign and dometic institutional investors in Indian stock markets. Foreign and domestic institutional investors both prefer larger, widely dispersed firms and do not chase returns. However, we find evidence of strong differences in the behaviour of foreign and domestic institutional investors. Foreign investors prefer to buy private, liquid, young and gl...

We study brokerage account data from China to study investing behavior and trading performance in an emerging market. Chinese stock markets are new, so we assume that Chinese investors are less experienced about investing as compared to investors from more capitalistic oriented societies. We find that Chinese investors exhibit behavioral biases (i.e., they seem overconfident, inclined toward a ...

-In this study, it is discussed about the mutual fund knowledge and awareness among the investors with a special reference to Chennai city. It is difficult to selective group the investors in a sample as such the population of Chennai city is large in number. Compared to earlier days the investment options are changing from risk free to riskier investments. The analyses also shows that compared...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Trading volume Buy–sell imbalance Financial crisis We confirm that investors in different categories have different trading patterns caused by attention-grabbing factors. Stocks with extreme one-day returns catch the attention of both individual and institutional investors. Individual investors are net buyers of losers whereas institutional investors are net buye...

Representative investors whose behavior is modeled by a deterministic finite automaton generate complexity both in the time series of each asset and in the cross-sectional correlation when the rule governing their behavior is schizophrenic, meaning the investor holds multiple seemingly contradictory beliefs simultaneously, either by switching between two different rules at each time step, or co...

We study rankings of completely and partially diversified portfolios and also of specialized assets when investors follow so-called Markowitz preferences. It turns out that diversification strategies for Markowitz investors are more complex than in the case of risk-averse and risk-inclined investors, whose investment strategies have been extensively investigated in the literature. In particular...