The market for lemmings: The herding behavior of pension funds
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Institutional investors; Pension funds; Herding; Portfolio rebalancing;All these keywords.
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- G23 - Financial Economics - - Financial Institutions and Services - - - Non-bank Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Institutional Investors
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