Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/22409 
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Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
Diskussionsbeitrag No. 297
Publisher: 
Universität Hannover, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Hannover
Abstract: 
Based on a questionnaire survey the paper distinguishes between herding asset managers who try to be good and non-herding asset managers who try to be better than their competitors. It provides evidence for reputational herding and discusses herding managers' working effort, preferred sources of information and investment horizon. Additionally, their risk taking behavior including their investment behavior in short-term tournament scenarios is analyzed. It is found that herding managers assess themselves as generally more risk averse than non-herding managers, but in the tournament they are willing to take more risk. This finding is ascribable to their fear of falling out of the herd.
Subjects: 
Institutional investors
herding
risk aversion
tournament hypothesis
JEL: 
G23
G14
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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