To Sell or Not to Sell? Disposition Effect and Investment Style

37 Pages Posted: 3 Feb 2022 Last revised: 25 Apr 2023

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Can Yilanci

University of Mannheim - Finance Area

Date Written: January 28, 2022

Abstract

In my sample of active mutual funds, the disposition effect is driven by investment style. I find a strong disposition effect for value funds but I find no disposition effect for growth funds. While value funds need to hold on to "loser" stocks, growth funds need to hold on to "winner" stocks (the opposite of the disposition effect). Focusing on a subsample of managers who manage value and growth funds at the same time, I find that these managers show a disposition effect for their value funds but no disposition effect for their growth funds. I make similar findings when focusing on a sample of passive index funds. These findings call into question the traditional understanding of the disposition effect as a behavioral bias.

Keywords: Mutual Funds, Disposition Effect

JEL Classification: G11, G23, G40

Suggested Citation

Yilanci, Can, To Sell or Not to Sell? Disposition Effect and Investment Style (January 28, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4023334 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4023334

Can Yilanci (Contact Author)

University of Mannheim - Finance Area ( email )

Mannheim, 68131
Germany

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