Title: How volatility affects the behaviour of institutional investors in emerging markets

Authors: Purwa Srivastava; Sakshi Varshney

Addresses: Humanities and Social Science Department, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida-201304, Uttar Pradesh, India ' Humanities and Social Science Department, Jaypee Institute of Information Technology, Noida-201304, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract: The investments made by domestic institutional investors (DII) have turned out to be a dynamic force for the development of Indian stock markets. This situation has motivated me to study the nexus between DII's capital flows and stock market volatility. Most studies have taken mutual funds as the proxy for DII. This paper has considered the disintegrated data of DII, which includes mutual funds and insurance companies, banks, and development financial institutions (DFI). The study discloses that out of four DII, insurance companies increase the market volatility. On the other hand, trading of banks, mutual funds, and DFI are helping to decrease the volatility in stock markets. Thus, they contribute to correct the overreaction in stock markets resulting from noise trading. Moreover, all the DII's act as informed traders because they take advantage of the volatile markets for investments.

Keywords: mutual funds; insurance companies; development financial institution; DFI; banks; stock market volatility; vector autoregressive model.

DOI: 10.1504/GBER.2022.124597

Global Business and Economics Review, 2022 Vol.27 No.1, pp.43 - 71

Received: 11 Dec 2020
Accepted: 01 Sep 2021
Published online: 29 Jul 2022 *

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