This paper examines herd behaviour using aggregate market data for stocks, with a focus on the role of idiosyncratic participants with heterogeneous information. We look at herding asymmetry between up and down markets, taking into consideration the daily price limits and the impact of the...

In the case study, Mr. Sharma is a retail investor who has been investing in the Indian stock market for the past 10 years. Recently, he has been making emotional investment decisions and has fallen victim to a stock market scam.Scams in the Indian stock market can also be a concern for...

Using a semi-supervised topic model on 7,000,000 New York Times articles spanning 160 years, we test whether topics of media discourse predict future stock and bond market returns to test rational and behavioral hypotheses about market valuation of disaster risk. Focusing on media discourse...

What determines risk-bearing capacity and the amount of leverage in financial markets? Using unique archival data on collateralized lending, we show that personal experience can affect individual risk-taking and aggregate leverage. When an investor syndicate speculating in Amsterdam in 1772 went...

What determines risk-bearing capacity and the amount of leverage in financial markets? Using unique archival data on collateralized lending, we show that personal experience can affect individual risk-taking and aggregate leverage. When an investor syndicate speculating in Amsterdam in 1772 went...

This paper is investigated herding and cross-herding behavior in the UAE equity markets during the period from January 1, 2008 to March 31, 2019. Herding behavior is tested in both static and regime-switching framework. The findings of the paper suggest a presence of significant herd behavior in...

We apply the sequential unit root tests of Phillips et al. (2015) for mildly explosive processes to identify and date-stamp bubbles in the emerging and frontier African stock markets. We find periods of explosive behavior in the price–dividend ratio in several markets which is indicative of...

The sharp drop and subsequent rebound in global stock markets in the current pandemic focuses attention on changes in investors' risk attitudes. A new COVID-19 risk attitude (CRA) index for 61 markets, based on internet searches in Google and Baidu, does a good job at capturing investors'...

The paper examines the implications arising from the effect of two cognitive biases, representativeness and conservatism, for securities price behaviour on the London Stock Exchange. In a single- and multi-factor framework of abnormal returns, the aspects of trend and consistency in the...

We investigate herding in eight African frontier stock markets between January 2002 and July 2015, given the limited evidence on herding in frontier markets. Herding appears significant throughout the 2002-2015 period for all markets, with smaller stocks found to enhance its magnitude. Herding...