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Can institutional investors always beat individual investors?
In an imperfectly competitive market, we find that an institutional investor with an information advantage consistently earns higher expected trading profits than sophisticated individual investors who internalize their price impact. However, when noise-trading volume and the noise-to-signal ratio are sufficiently high, the institutional investor underperforms naive individual investors who act as price-takers. The aggressive trading behavior of naive investors, driven by their failure to account for price impact, forces the institutional investor to reduce his trading aggressiveness. Our findings highlight that, under certain conditions, the irrationality of naive traders can erode the advantages of information-driven trading strategies.
期刊介绍:
The Journal of Financial Markets publishes high quality original research on applied and theoretical issues related to securities trading and pricing. Area of coverage includes the analysis and design of trading mechanisms, optimal order placement strategies, the role of information in securities markets, financial intermediation as it relates to securities investments - for example, the structure of brokerage and mutual fund industries, and analyses of short and long run horizon price behaviour. The journal strives to maintain a balance between theoretical and empirical work, and aims to provide prompt and constructive reviews to paper submitters.