We look into determinants (volatility, crises, sentiment and the U.S. ‘fear’ index) of herding using BRICS as our … relationship between volatility and CSAD (cross sectional absolute deviation)/herding, a lower CSAD (movement in a specific … direction) brings about less volatility. However, a high volatility amplifies herding (reduces CSAD), especially in China …

Despite the voluminous literature on the effect of aid-for-trade (AfT) flows on recipient countries’ trade performance …

We highlight herding of investors as one major risk factor that is typically ignored in statistical approaches to … portfolio modelling and risk management. Our survey focuses on smart-beta investing where such methods and investor herding seem … modelling herding risk which merit empirical analysis. This financial economists' perspective supplements the vast statistical …

choice in the context of the fragmented equity markets. We provide a brief background on the history of trading fragmentation … in the equity market and its determinants. We discuss the direct and indirect impacts of the market fragmentation on … market quality in various dimensions, including liquidity, volatility, and price efficiency. Next, we identify possible …

implications for financial stability. Moreover, this phenomenon may be even more pronounced in times of crisis. Although herding is …

The purpose of this study is to find the influence of various macroeconomic factors on the volatility index, as … macroeconomic factors affect stock market volatility, resulting in an impact on the VIX Index, representing the risk in the stock … market. To estimate the significance and importance of the U.S. macroeconomic variables on stock market volatility and risk …

indicate that (1) the volatility of a stock’s returns and its centrality measures in the stock network are the main sources … exposure compared to firms with lower ESG ratings and (3) COVID-19 augmented the partial effects of volatility, centrality …