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Do Institutional Investors Destabilize Stock Prices? Evidence on Herding and Feedback Trading
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JOSEF LAKONISHOK
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
ANDREI SHLEIFER
Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
ROBERT W. VISHNY
University of Chicago - Graduate School of Business; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
September 1991
NBER Working Paper No. W3846
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Abstract:
This paper uses a new data set of quarterly portfolio holdings of 769 all-equity pension funds between 1985 and 1989 to evaluate the potential effect of their trading on stock prices. We address two aspects of trading by money managers: herding, which refers to buying (selling) the same stocks as other managers buy (sell) at the same time; and positive-feedback trading, which refers to buying winners and selling losers. These two aspects of trading are commonly a part of the argument that institutions destabilize stock prices. At the level of individual stocks at quarterly frequencies, we find no evidence of substantial herding or positive-feedback trading by pension fund managers, except in small stocks. Also, there is no strong cross-sectional correlation between changes in pension funds' holdings of a stock and its abnormal return.
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JEL Classifications: S2
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Suggested Citation
Lakonishok, Josef, Shleifer, Andrei and Vishny, Robert W., "Do Institutional Investors Destabilize Stock Prices? Evidence on Herding and Feedback Trading"
(September 1991).
NBER Working Paper No. W3846. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=226729
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LAKONISHOK
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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ANDREI
SHLEIFER
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SHLEIFER
Harvard University - Department of Economics
Littauer Center
Cambridge
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SHLEIFER
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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United States
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SHLEIFER
European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI)
c/o ECARES ULB CP 114
B-1050 Brussels
Belgium
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ROBERT
W.
VISHNY
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W.
VISHNY
University of Chicago - Graduate School of Business
Chicago
, IL
60637
United States
312-702-2522 (Phone)
312-702-0118 (Fax)
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W.
VISHNY
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)
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Cambridge
, MA
02138
United States
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