This paper analyzes the mechanism whereby accumulation of pension funds leads to development of capital markets and the preconditions for this to take place. The mechanism is in essence posited as a process of internalizing the pecuniary external effects arising from risk taking within...

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...