This paper seeks to develop a structural model that lets data on asset returns and trading volume speak to whether volatility autocorrelation comes from the fundamental that the trading process is pricing or, is caused by the trading process itself. Returns and volume data argue, in the context...

This paper tests for the presence of herding on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). We measure the degree of herding from 1998-2001, the “bubble” period and its collapse. We estimate the incidence of herding by applying a test of serial independence in the observed interarrival times of...