Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22111 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper Series No. 2006,6
Publisher: 
European University Viadrina, The Postgraduate Research Programme: Capital Markets and Finance in the Enlarged Europe, Frankfurt (Oder)
Abstract: 
In this paper, we investigate the effect of institutional investors on the January stock market anomaly. The Polish and Hungarian pension system reforms and the associated increase in investment activities of pension funds are used as a unique institutional characteristic to provide evidence on the impact of individual versus institutional investors on the January effect. We find robust empirical results that the increase in institutional ownership has reduced the magnitude of an anomalous January effect induced by individual investors' trading behavior.
Subjects: 
Institutional Traders
Individual Investors
January Effect
Polish and Hungarian Pension Fund Investors
JEL: 
G14
G23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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