This paper analyses herding behaviour in the Pakistan stockexchange (PSX, formerly known as Karachi stock exchange, KSE) for a sampleof 663 firms over a period of 13 years, from 2004 to 2017. For detectingherding behaviour, two dependent variables are used, i.e., cross-sectionalstandard...

Political uncertainty is a key determinant of investment decisions. Specifically, the uncertainty that surrounds government policy makes beliefs noisier and depresses stock prices. In this paper, we explore whether institutional investors "herd", i.e., mimic each other's trades, in response to...

This note explores a secondary effect of the GameStop short squeeze event and links the exalted focus of retail investors on meme stocks to financial literacy and autodidacticism. From an overview of stylized facts about the short squeeze of GameStop based on high frequency data, short interest,...

We investigate herding in ten equity markets during the COVID-19 pandemic using a methodology that considers movements in assets due to changes in fundamentals. We find heterogeneous patterns in herding across the ten countries and little evidence of herding during the pandemic. The initial...

This study investigates herd effects in 101 cryptocurrencies during the period from January 2015 to June 2020. The results confirm the existence of herding behavior in the cryptocurrency market for the entire sample and show that herding asymmetry is present during both bullish and bearish...

We contribute to behavioral finance literature by demonstrating the relative superiority of a dynamic regime-sensitive approach in unravelling herding phenomenon. Employing daily data in Bursa Malaysia from 1995 to 2016, we first apply two orthodox techniques: cross-sectional standard deviation...

Firms added to the S&P 500 index join a prestigious and exclusive club. They want to fit in the club, which creates a “keeping up with the Joneses” effect. Firms pay more attention to their index peers after inclusion and their investment, external financing, and payouts comove more with...

According to the widely known 'culture of honor' hypothesis from social psychology, traditional herding practices are believed to have generated a value system that is conducive to revenge-taking and violence. We test this idea at a global scale using a combination of ethnographic records,...

The aim of this study is to understand the effect of the recent novel coronavirus pandemic on investor herding behavior in global stock markets. Utilizing a daily newspaper-based index of financial uncertainty associated with infectious diseases, we examine the association between...