Purpose: Motivated by the ongoing debate on the existence and magnitude of herding in financial markets, the purpose of this paper is to examine Eurozone stock markets for herding behavior. In the context of the present study, the authors seek for herding behavior of stock markets as a whole as...

This paper examines the dynamic properties of Bitcoin and the Standard and Poor's SP500 index, using a variety of econometric approaches, including univariate and multivariate GARCH models, and vector autoregressive specifications. Moreover, we explore whether Bitcoin can be classified as a...

The recent financial crisis clearly demonstrated that herding behavior incorporates an unhedgeable systemic risk, exposing investors and financial institutions to market prices and valuations, which cannot be solely explained by fundamentals. We examine the existence of herding behavior of the...