This paper investigates the existence of contrarian profits and the sources of these profits, for the Athens Stock Exchange (ASE). The empirical analysis decomposes contrarian profits to sources due to common factor reaction, overreaction to firm-specific information, and profits not related to...

This paper provides original evidence on the relation between herd behavior and equity market liquidity, an issue that has been neglected when studying herd behavior towards the consensus. We use equity price data for the G5 markets, and initially we find no evidence of herding. When, however,...

The paper employs government bond portfolios from 17 countries so as to investigate the short-run reaction of investors to price shocks. The findings indicate a uniform return reversal pattern across countries, that persists irrespective of various robustness tests such as different data-sets...

During the recent financial crisis, numerous EU officials, market participants and the media suggested that irrational herding was a key factor for the financial turmoil and the soaring yield spreads. In this paper we test for evidence of herd behavior in European government bond prices and,...

The aim of this paper is to investigate if, and to what extent, events from the three financially troubled EU markets (Greece, Ireland, and Portugal) affected energy prices during the recent EU financial crisis. More specifically, (i) we test for contagion effects from bond markets on...

This paper offers, for the first time, evidence on the effect of ECB's conventional and unconventional monetary policy on economic expectations in Euro-area countries during the US and EU crisis. We employ a range of research methodologies (PVAR, QVAR, FAVAR) in a sample of nine Eurozone...

This paper examines the determinants of CDS spreads and potential spillover effects for Eurozone countries during the recent financial crisis in the EU. We employ a Panel Vector Autoregressive (PVAR) model which combines the advantages of traditional VAR modelling with the advantages of a...