This paper investigates the effect of herd behavior, or information cascades, on the willingness to be vaccinated against COVID-19. We use the 2021/2022 wave of the European Social Survey combined with data from the organization Our World in Data and measure the herding behavior as the change in...

This paper investigates the relationship between aggregate market herding and investor attention in seven selected equity markets over the period of 2004-2019. The multinomial logistic regression employed in this study provides a more direct, comprehensive, and straightforward test than other...

The results reveal significant evidence of herding in the overall, bearish, and extended crisis market phases during extreme downturns, while the magnitude of market returns in the tail distribution is considered. Asymmetric herding behavior is more pronounced and prevalent, conditioned by...

This paper studies whether the interplay of social comparisons in housing and rising income inequality contributed to the household debt boom in the US between 1980 and 2007. We develop a tractable macroeconomic model with general social comparisons in housing to show that changes in the...

This study explores herding behavior in the cryptocurrency market during three major international crises: the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia-Ukraine war, and the Palestine-Israel conflict. The study uses daily closing prices of five major cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tether, BNB, and...