We look into determinants (volatility, crises, sentiment and the U.S. ‘fear’ index) of herding using BRICS as our … relationship between volatility and CSAD (cross sectional absolute deviation)/herding, a lower CSAD (movement in a specific … direction) brings about less volatility. However, a high volatility amplifies herding (reduces CSAD), especially in China …

component of demand that is caused by peer benchmarking. We find that these peer effects generate excess stock return volatility …