Short-Term Trading and Stock Return Anomalies: Momentum, Reversal, and Share Issuance

Review of Finance, Forthcoming

62 Pages Posted: 17 Mar 2010 Last revised: 12 Jul 2014

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Martijn Cremers

University of Notre Dame; ECGI

Ankur Pareek

Bucknell University, Freeman College of Management

Date Written: April 17, 2014

Abstract

This paper examines how the extent of short-term trading relates to the efficiency of stock prices. We employ a new duration measure based on quarterly institutional investors’ portfolio holdings, next to existing proxies such as trading volume, the percentage of transient institutions, and fund turnover. Momentum returns and subsequent returns reversal are generally much stronger for stocks held primarily by short-term investors, especially if these investors recently had superior recent performance which could make them overconfident. Our results point towards the behavioral theory in Daniel, Hirshleifer and Subrahmanyam (1998) and seem inconsistent with short-term institutions improving efficiency.

The appendices for this paper are available at the following URL: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2464597

Keywords: stock holding duration, return anomalies, institutional investors

JEL Classification: G12, G14

Suggested Citation

Cremers, K. J. Martijn and Pareek, Ankur, Short-Term Trading and Stock Return Anomalies: Momentum, Reversal, and Share Issuance (April 17, 2014). Review of Finance, Forthcoming, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1571191 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1571191

K. J. Martijn Cremers

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Ankur Pareek (Contact Author)

Bucknell University, Freeman College of Management ( email )

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