Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine whether Fama-French common risk-factor portfolio investors herd on a daily basis for five developed markets, namely, Europe, Japan, Asia Pacific ex Japan, North America and Globe. Design/methodology/approach - To examine the herd behavior of...

This paper employs numerical simulations of the Park and Sabourian (2011) herd model to derive new theory-based predictions for how information risk and market stress influence aggregate herding intensity. We test these predictions empirically using a comprehensive data set of highfrequency and...

The determinants of portfolio choice have been studied extensively in the field of household finance. In this paper we study the determinants of the decision to hold risky assets based on a novel dataset of German bank data. Our primary focus is the question whether East Germans differ in their...

This paper proposes a machine learning approach to building investment strategies that addresses several drawbacks of a classic approach. To demonstrate our approach, we use a logistic regression algorithm to build a time-series dual momentum trading strategy on the S&P 500 Index. Our algorithm...

In this paper we study the effect of institutional reform on the decision to hold risky assets at the extensive and the intensive margin. We therefore make use of the natural experiment of German Division and Reunification and, based on savings bank customer data from German savings banks, study...