. Higher risk taking may be explained by a higher degree of overconfidence, less herding behavior, or a lower degree of risk … of previous studies, we find that herding is decreasing with experience while the evidence concerning risk taking and …, geringeres Herdenverhalten oder durch geringere Risikoaversion erklärt werden. Da die Ergebnisse vorheriger Studien bezüglich des …

-making process. Herding is the deliberate mimicking of the decisions of other agents. Examples of mimicry range from the choice of … restaurant, fashion and financial market participants, to academic research. Herding may conjure negative images of irrational … provide a direct test of herding behaviour, namely the extent to which small traders mimic the positions of large speculators …

private information. Path-dependency can be of two types contingent on whether agents act with the crowd (herding) or against … uncertainty that their predecessors acted purely for liquidity motives. In this setting we recover herding and contrarianism and …-dependent behavior more easily than poorly informed ones. Moreover, we illustrate how a market dominated by herding features a price that …

This paper employs a new and comprehensive data set to investigate short-term herding behavior of institutional … investors. Using data of all transactions made by financial institutions in the German stock market, we show that herding … behavior occurs on a daily basis. However, in contrast to longer-term herding measures obtained from quarterly data, results …

Bikhchandani und Sharma (2000), haben gezeigt, dass Herdenverhalten eine wichtige Rolle bei der Erklärung von Preisübertreibungen …