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Recently, the theory of informational cascades has been tested in an experiment by Anderson and Holt (1997) who report that their data support the theory amazingly well. In this note we report on an experiment designed to find out whether observed cascades are indeed due to rational Bayesian...
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engage more aggressively in certain trading patterns such as positive feedback trading or herding that could contribute to …
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performance is influenced by the extent of investors herding towards the common trend in stock returns. …
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. Most herding models are not able to explain such stability, instead predicting informational cascades to be fragile and … accumulation of consumption capital into a herding model. Further, the model is tested empirically by analyzing measures of … accumulate consumption capital for a particular style or artist and that this mechanism tends to make herding in arts stable over …
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We show that far from capturing a formally new phenomenon, informational herding is really a special case of single …
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securities. We identify how the herding behavior forms and how it changes over time. The results suggest that there is an … herding and investigative herding explain QFIIs' trading behavior in Taiwan. …
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As the number of bank failures increases, the set of assets available for acquisition by the surviving banks enlarges but the total amount of available liquidity within the surviving banks falls. This results in ‘cash-in-the-market’ pricing for liquidation of banking assets. At a...
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The recent literature on informational cascades has nurtured the impression that cascades can occur only if the action space is coarser than the signal space. In particular, it is sometimes claimed that with continuous action spaces cascades are impossible. In this note we present a simple...
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This study investigates in the context of the Euronext, whether joining an exchange group affects herding in the group … of the group's member-markets and the outbreak of financial crises. We find that herding is significant post-merger in … all four constituent equity markets (Belgium, France, the Netherlands and Portugal) of the Euronext, with herding in …
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autocorrelated out to time lags of tens of thousands of orders, corresponding to many days. Two possible explanations are herding … which we have membership identifiers. By formulating models for herding and order splitting, as well as models for brokerage … persistence of order flow is overwhelmingly due to splitting rather than herding. We also study the properties of brokerage order …
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