This paper provides a novel perspective to the innovation-stock market nexus by examining the predictive relationship between technological shocks and stock market volatility using data over a period of more than 140 years. Utilizing annual patent data for the U.S. and a large set of economies...

This paper examines intentional herding among institutional investors with a particular focus on the technology sector that was the driver of the “New Economy” in the United States during the dot-com bubble of the 1990s. Using data on technology stockholdings of 115 large institutional...