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Institutional Herding And Investor Sentiment, Xu Guo, Chen Gu, Chengping Zhang, Shenru Li
Institutional Herding And Investor Sentiment, Xu Guo, Chen Gu, Chengping Zhang, Shenru Li
Faculty Publications - College of Business
We investigate the role of investor sentiment in institutional herding behavior and its impact on stock prices. We find that institutional investors exhibit more herding behavior during periods of high sentiment, which has a significant impact on stock prices. Our results show that herding has a stabilizing effect on the stock market when investor sentiment is low, while it causes price distortions when sentiment is high. We also show that the impact of sentiment on price is particularly pronounced for small, non-profitable, low tangibility, high-growth firms.