The corporate debt reversibility analysis can be carried out not only from the owner/manager's active intervention perspective but also from the perspective of a mechanical reversion, independent of owner/managers' deliberations. Our study aims to discover how and which theoretical perspective...

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...

In an environment with extensive corruption where much of the population evades paying their full taxes due, we tackle the question of optimal taxation when constituencies with opposing objectives (the poor and the rich) push tax policy in different directions. We think in terms of a government...