| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立政治大學 === 財務管理研究所 === 99 === According to Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TWSE), individual investors accounted for 68% trading volume and foreign institutional investors accounted for 18.5% in stock market in 2010. In general, we regard foreign institutional investors as traders with professional analysis abilities. However, we thought individual investors are noise trader. We would like to know whether the individual investors follow foreign institutional investors’ transactions and elaborate their transaction behavior.
In order to understand whether individual investors follow the foreign institutional investors, we used event study and VAR to analyze their transaction behavior. We observed that foreign institutional investors are momentum traders. On contrary, we noticed that domestic institute investors and individuals are contrarian traders. Nevertheless, during financial crisis, foreign institutional investors became contrarian traders and individual turned to momentum traders. Through VAR model, we found that individual did not follow foreign institutional investors.
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