In this paper, we analyze the effects of common institutional blockholders (CIBs) on the dividend policies of investee firms. We find that firms are more likely to pay dividends (and pay larger dividends) when dividends are more prevalent among other firms held by a CIB. We establish causality...

The initial purpose of the study is to search whether the market exhibits herd behavior or not by examining the crypto asset market in the context of behavioral finance. And the second purpose of the study is to measure whether the financial information stimulates the herd behavior or not....

Prior literature documents that short sale activity clusters around mandated short sale position disclosures. We investigate two competing hypotheses for this finding in the UK market: herding- versus information-based trading. First, using an entropy-balanced matched sample of stocks, we find...

This paper examines the role of overlapping director networks on firm innovation, competition, and performance. First, we document that, despite potential legal challenges, overlapping directors are surprisingly most prevalent among direct competitor firm-pairs. Using panel data regressions with...

This paper studies the herding behavior in managers' investment decision; Herding, specifically is defined as managers' chosen optimal investment level deviates from the first best and is drawn closer to an external reference point - for example, the average investment level in an industry. The...

This paper is among the first to investigate high-frequency herding tendencies among exchange traded funds (ETF) traders within the commodities asset class. Operating on 64 popularly traded and liquid ETFs spread across five sub-sectors from 2009 to 2021, we apply four different...

Herding is human nature. There is ample evidence of it in the management of public pension funds in the United States. Their effective equity exposures cluster about an average of approximately 70%. Extreme diversification is universal. These two aspects of herd behavior have proven benign....

This study analyses the dynamics of intentional and fundamental herding and its non-linear determinants in the North-American energy market using state-space models and quantile-on-quantile regression technique. Our findings demonstrate significant presence of herding in North-American energy...