Who Moves Stock Prices? Monthly Evidence
27 Pages Posted: 26 Feb 2007 Last revised: 25 May 2010
Date Written: February 2008
Abstract
Existing evidence using US data show a simultaneous covariability between a stock's price and quarterly flows into and out of the stock by institutional investors. In this paper we use data on monthly changes in holdings by all investor groups at the Oslo Stock Exchange to show that such quarterly effects are concentrated within a month. We find a positive relation between monthly net flows into a stock by institutions and foreigners and the stock's return. We find no evidence of any effects the next month, providing evidence against the hypothesis that quarterly results are due to within-quarter feedback. Such feedback effects must be of less than one month duration. We show that offsetting net inflows by mutual funds and foreigners are net outflows by individual and nonfinancial investors. The interesting question is which of these groups are active in pushing prices. While we can not empirically distinguish which of the various investor groups is reacting, we argue that the most reasonable story is that institutions and foreign investors are the active parties, since the prices move in the direction of these groups' trades. The lack of next-month feedback (price reversals) is consistent with prices moving toward fundamentals.
Keywords: Asset Prices, Investor Groups, Mutual Funds, Herding, Feedback
JEL Classification: G10, G20
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