This paper documents the effect of herd behaviour on the US S%P100 and US DJIA stock market's stocks volatility. We investigated the presence and the change of herding behaviour in the US S%P100 and US DJIA stock markets during January 2000 to July 2012. Results provide strong and coherent...

Religion has a major impact on people's daily life and is closely connected with their economic condition. The purpose of this chapter is to discuss the connection between religion and economic factors and to show how religion affects investment and financing decisions. It focuses on this...

This paper examines the existence of herding in the US market. We study the turnover effect on herding movement by modifying the Cross-Sectional Standard Deviation (CSSD) model and the Cross-Sectional Absolute Deviation (CSAD) model. Results are inconclusive about the presence of herding in the...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine empirically the impact of COVID-19 pandemic news in USA and in China on the dynamic conditional correlation between Bitcoin and Gold. Design/methodology/approach: This paper offers a crucial viewpoint to the predictive capacity of COVID-19...