Empirical Analysis of Herd Behavior in the Turkish IPO Market
Abstract
The
behavioral issues behind initial public offerings (IPOs) are still unsolved phenomenon
in finance literature. The aim of this paper is to find out the probable presence
of herd behavior in the post-IPO period of the firms listed in Borsa Istanbul
for the short term. Parker and Prechter (2012) emphasized that based on the
socioeconomic theory, when there is uncertainty; people tend to imitate others
due to evolutionary reasons. For this reason, the analysis is conducted to IPO
market in which uncertainity is higher. The underlying reason is that people
think unconsciously that “sometimes others actually do know”, so according to
them under uncertainty following others or showing herd behavior increases the
overall chance of survival (Parker and Prechter, 2012, p.5). Kremer (2010)
states that in emerging markets uncertainty is higher due to lack of perfect
regulatory frameworks. Therefore, because of this uncertain environment,
investors may follow others. Many researchers conducted studies about the
evidence of herd behavior in developed (such as USA and England) and developing
(such as Turkey and Brazil) countries’ markets. According to the investigated
literature, to the best of authors’ knowledge, there is no study that focused
on the evidence of herd behavior in the Turkish IPOs market and this study aims
to fill this gap. Daily returns of the IPO aftermarket are used during a 30-day
period. To detect the evidence of herd behavior, Christie and Huang (1995)
method is implied by using cross sectional standard deviation (CSSD) as a
dispersion. Regression analysis is employed by using Eviews software. The
results indicate herd behavior is not present for the analysed period.
Keywords
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
March 29, 2019
Submission Date
October 11, 2018
Acceptance Date
March 27, 2019
Published in Issue
Year 2019 Volume: 34 Number: 1