The 'Barn Door Closing Effect': application to the Portuguese mutual fund industry

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Autor(a) principal: Samuel Ferreira Correia
Data de Publicação: 2018
Tipo de documento: Dissertação
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: https://hdl.handle.net/10216/115265
Resumo: Behavioural finance is nowadays one of the most interesting themes in finance, once the way investors think is affecting the world's transactions in financial markets. "Barn Door closing" is a phenomenon that consists in undertaking a behaviour in the future that would have been profitable in the past. There are several reasons underlying this phenomenon, as, for example, the uncertainty about the outcomes of financial markets. Some investors need to see a good performance of a mutual fund, measured by return, to invest. This will create a kind of "delay" in the investment because the investor will only earn money in the next period instead of earn it in the past. Being the first time that this thematic is applied to European mutual funds, namely the Portuguese ones, we run a regression over a panel of 29 mutual funds from 2008 to 2012, to know if there is evidence of the phenomenon in the Portuguese market. Also, as we consider a period that comprises two different financial situations, one of pre-crisis and another of crisis, we run other regression with multiplicative dummies that interact with the explanatory variables, to know if the magnitude of the phenomenon is different in these two sub-periods. We find out, in the overall period regression, evidence of the phenomenon in these type of mutual funds, despite of its low magnitude. This happens because the coefficient of the variable return is approximately zero. Concerning the impact of "barn door closing" in the two sub-periods, we conclude that there is no difference in its magnitude, because the variable that interacts with lagged return has no statistical significance. Investors' performance is jeopardized. They can have higher profits by investing in the previous period instead of doing it in the following.
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title The 'Barn Door Closing Effect': application to the Portuguese mutual fund industry
spellingShingle The 'Barn Door Closing Effect': application to the Portuguese mutual fund industry
Samuel Ferreira Correia
Economia e gestão
Economics and Business
title_short The 'Barn Door Closing Effect': application to the Portuguese mutual fund industry
title_full The 'Barn Door Closing Effect': application to the Portuguese mutual fund industry
title_fullStr The 'Barn Door Closing Effect': application to the Portuguese mutual fund industry
title_full_unstemmed The 'Barn Door Closing Effect': application to the Portuguese mutual fund industry
title_sort The 'Barn Door Closing Effect': application to the Portuguese mutual fund industry
author Samuel Ferreira Correia
author_facet Samuel Ferreira Correia
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Samuel Ferreira Correia
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Economics and Business
topic Economia e gestão
Economics and Business
description Behavioural finance is nowadays one of the most interesting themes in finance, once the way investors think is affecting the world's transactions in financial markets. "Barn Door closing" is a phenomenon that consists in undertaking a behaviour in the future that would have been profitable in the past. There are several reasons underlying this phenomenon, as, for example, the uncertainty about the outcomes of financial markets. Some investors need to see a good performance of a mutual fund, measured by return, to invest. This will create a kind of "delay" in the investment because the investor will only earn money in the next period instead of earn it in the past. Being the first time that this thematic is applied to European mutual funds, namely the Portuguese ones, we run a regression over a panel of 29 mutual funds from 2008 to 2012, to know if there is evidence of the phenomenon in the Portuguese market. Also, as we consider a period that comprises two different financial situations, one of pre-crisis and another of crisis, we run other regression with multiplicative dummies that interact with the explanatory variables, to know if the magnitude of the phenomenon is different in these two sub-periods. We find out, in the overall period regression, evidence of the phenomenon in these type of mutual funds, despite of its low magnitude. This happens because the coefficient of the variable return is approximately zero. Concerning the impact of "barn door closing" in the two sub-periods, we conclude that there is no difference in its magnitude, because the variable that interacts with lagged return has no statistical significance. Investors' performance is jeopardized. They can have higher profits by investing in the previous period instead of doing it in the following.
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