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Richard Sias

Professor of Finance
Verified email at arizona.edu
Cited by 10824

Herding and feedback trading by institutional and individual investors

JR Nofsinger, RW Sias - The Journal of finance, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
We document strong positive correlation between changes in institutional ownership and
returns measured over the same period. The result suggests that either institutional investors …

Institutional herding

RW Sias - The Review of Financial Studies, 2004 - academic.oup.com
Institutional investors' demand for a security this quarter is positively correlated with their
demand for the security last quarter. We attribute this to institutional investors following each …

Changes in institutional ownership and stock returns: Assessment and methodology

RW Sias, LT Starks, S Titman - The Journal of Business, 2006 - JSTOR
Although the relation between quarterly changes in institutional investor ownership and
contemporaneous stock returns is well documented, the source of the relation remains unclear …

The price impact of institutional trading

RW Sias, LT Starks, S Titman - Available at SSRN 283779, 2001 - papers.ssrn.com
Recent studies document a strong positive relation between quarterly and annual changes
in institutional ownership and returns measured over the same period. The source of this …

Reconcilable differences: Momentum trading by institutions

RW Sias - Financial Review, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
A growing literature evaluates the relation between lag returns and demand by institutional
investors. Given that lag returns and institutional ownership are directly observable, it is …

Voting with their feet: Institutional ownership changes around forced CEO turnover

R Parrino, RW Sias, LT Starks - Journal of financial economics, 2003 - Elsevier
We investigate whether institutional investors “vote with their feet” when dissatisfied with a
firm's management by examining changes in equity ownership around forced CEO turnover. …

Greener pastures and the impact of dynamic institutional preferences

JA Bennett, RW Sias, LT Starks - The Review of Financial …, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Although institutional investors have a preference for large capitalization stocks, over time
they have shifted their preferences toward smaller, riskier securities. These changes in …

Return autocorrelation and institutional investors

RW Sias, LT Starks - Journal of Financial economics, 1997 - Elsevier
We propose and test the hypothesis that trading by institutional investors contributes to
serial correlation in daily returns. Our results demonstrate that NYSE particles and individual …

Institutional industry herding

N Choi, RW Sias - Journal of financial economics, 2009 - Elsevier
We examine whether institutional investors follow each other into and out of the same industries.
Our empirical results reveal strong evidence of institutional industry herding. The cross-…

Institutions and individuals at the turn‐of‐the‐year

RW Sias, LT Starks - The Journal of Finance, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
This article evaluates the tax‐loss‐selling hypothesis against the window‐dressing
hypothesis as explanations for turn‐of‐the‐year anomalies. We examine differences between …