Does Herding Behavior Reveal Skill? An Analysis of Mutual Fund Performance

We uncover a negative relation between herding behavior and skill in the mutual fund industry. Our new, dynamic measure of fund-level herding captures the tendency of fund managers to follow the trades of the institutional crowd. We find that herding funds underperform their antiherding peers by ove...

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Main Authors: Jiang, H. (Author), Verardo, M. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Blackwell Publishing Ltd 2018
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