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We estimate the effects of peer benchmarking by institutional investors on asset prices. To identify trades purely due to peer benchmarking as separate from those based on fundamentals or private information, we exploit a natural experiment involving a change in a government-imposed...
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and chartists, comprises four features: (i) price determination by excess demand; (ii) a herding mechanism that gives rise …
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idiosyncratic stocks. This sheds light on why herding is not detected in the prior studies as it may be concentrated among stocks … with certain characteristics. Further, it provides evidence of adverse herding …
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Purpose: the paper aims at examining the existence of herding behaviour in two opposite market condition: bullish and … Egyptian market exhibits herding behaviour in general especially when the market is down, (b) the Egyptian market was found to … herding behaviour. Originality/value: The study contributes to the literature as (a) it extends studies of herding behaviour …
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Exiting studies document that institutional herding has a stabilizing effect on stock prices, as stock returns over one …- to three-quarter horizons are positively correlated with herding. The literature also shows that short-term institutions … herding. Our results show that herding by short-term institutions promotes price discovery. In contrast, herding by long …
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This study provides an explanation for the emergence of power laws in asset trading volume and returns. We consider a two-state model with binary actions, where traders infer other traders' private signals regarding the value of an asset from their actions and adjust their own behavior...
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This paper first extends Sias (2004) to examine whether UK fund managers are engaged in herding behaviours in the stock … market, their reasons for herding, whether their herding behaviours are different during bullish and bearish periods and … whether or not their herding behaviours are informational. Our results demonstrate that UK fund managers' cascades primarily …
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This study tried to document Herding Behavior in the stock market of Bangladesh following the investigation of Paulo … study used the Cross-Sectional Absolute Deviation (CSAD) to measure the Herding Behavior in the context of the Bangladesh … stock market. The findings of the study, suggest herding behavior does exist in our market. Results based on daily data …
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This paper examines whether momentum drives the disposition effect and vice versa in the US stock market. The results from the analysis of the Fama-Macbethregressions show that the disposition effect drives momentum but not the other way around. Furthermore, we find that this relationship varies...
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We study how the social transmission of public news influences investors' beliefs and securities markets. Using an extensive dataset to measure investor social networks, we find that earnings announcements from firms in higher-centrality locations generate stronger immediate price and trading...
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