This paper sheds new light on the impact of information risk and market stress on herding of institutional traders from both, a theoretical and an empirical perspective. Using numerical simulations of a herd model, we show that buy and sell herding intensity should increase with information...

Introduction -- Part I. Asset Pricing -- Chapter 1. Oil Price Uncertainty: Panel Evidence from the G7 and BRICS Countries -- Chapter 2. Climate Risk and the Volatility of Agricultural Commodity Price Fluctuations: A Forecasting Experiment -- Chapter 3. Linking the COVID-19 Epidemic and Emerging...

Papers presented at the Conference, held at Pondicherry University during 17-19 December 2010; organized by Dept. of Commerce, Pondicherry University in association with Multi Commodity Exchange of India, Forward Markets Commission, Govt. of India, and NABARD