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Effect of Investor Category Trading Imbalances on Stock Returns

Effect of Investor Category Trading Imbalances on Stock Returns ABSTRACT Trading is the mechanism of the economist's ‘invisible hand,’ the means by which price discovery occurs. We use daily shareholdings data from the Australian equities clearinghouse to investigate the impact of the trading imbalances of investor categories on stock returns. Our evidence does not contradict the behavioral finance assumption that the trading of individual investors contributes to price discovery. Furthermore, we find that, while the trading of all investor categories Granger‐causes returns, returns Granger‐cause trading only for the individual investor category. That is, in the short term of up to 1 month, only individual investors engage in feedback trading. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Review of Finance Wiley

Effect of Investor Category Trading Imbalances on Stock Returns

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Publisher
Wiley
Copyright
© 2008 The Authors. Journal compilation © International Review of Finance Ltd. 2008
ISSN
1369-412X
eISSN
1468-2443
DOI
10.1111/j.1468-2443.2008.00081.x
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Abstract

ABSTRACT Trading is the mechanism of the economist's ‘invisible hand,’ the means by which price discovery occurs. We use daily shareholdings data from the Australian equities clearinghouse to investigate the impact of the trading imbalances of investor categories on stock returns. Our evidence does not contradict the behavioral finance assumption that the trading of individual investors contributes to price discovery. Furthermore, we find that, while the trading of all investor categories Granger‐causes returns, returns Granger‐cause trading only for the individual investor category. That is, in the short term of up to 1 month, only individual investors engage in feedback trading.

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International Review of FinanceWiley

Published: Sep 1, 2008

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