A Panic-Prone Pack? the Behavior of Emerging Market Mutual Funds

December 1, 2000

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Gaston Gelos, and Eduardo Borensztein. A Panic-Prone Pack? the Behavior of Emerging Market Mutual Funds, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2000) accessed December 3, 2024

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Summary

This paper explores the behavior of emerging market mutual funds using a novel database covering the holdings of individual funds over the period January 1996 to March 1999. An examination of individual crises shows that, on average, funds withdrew money one month prior to the events. The degree of herding among funds is statistically significant, but moderate. Herding is more widespread among open-ended funds than among closed-end funds, but not more prevalent during crises than during tranquil times. Funds tend to follow momentum strategies, selling past losers and buying past winners, but their overall behavior is more complex than often suggested.

Subject: Balance of payments, Capital flows, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Financial institutions, Financial markets, Mutual funds, Stock markets, Stocks

Keywords: Asia and Pacific, Capital flows, Contagion, Country funds, Emerging and frontier financial markets, Emerging market, Emerging market funds, Emerging markets, Europe, Financial crises, Foreign portfolio investment, Fund, Fund manager, Funds overtime, Global, Herding, Investment strategies, Investor, Investor behavior, Middle East, Mutual funds, Nonresident investor, Offshore fund, Open-ended fund, Stock markets, Stocks, WP

Publication Details

Pages:

36
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Series:

Working Paper No. 2000/198
Stock No:

WPIEA1982000
ISBN:

9781451860054
ISSN:

1018-5941

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