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Investors’ Fear and Herding Behavior: Evidence from the Taiwan Stock Market

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  • Teng-Ching Huang
  • Kuei-Yuan Wang

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This article analyzes the influence of investors’ fear on their investment behavior in the Taiwan stock market. This study used the volatility index (VIX) as a barometer of investors’ fear. Our results show that herding behavior increases with the VIX; that is, herding behavior is encouraged by an increase in investors’ fear. Moreover, our results demonstrate that investors react more quickly to bad news than to good news when their fear increases, supporting the hypothesis of the presence of an asymmetric reaction to news. However, investors react more quickly to good news when their fear decreases, indicating an inverse asymmetric reaction. In addition, our empirical results reveal that herding behavior tends to exist on days with a large trading volume.

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  • Teng-Ching Huang & Kuei-Yuan Wang, 2017. "Investors’ Fear and Herding Behavior: Evidence from the Taiwan Stock Market," Emerging Markets Finance and Trade, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 53(10), pages 2259-2278, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:mes:emfitr:v:53:y:2017:i:10:p:2259-2278
    DOI: 10.1080/1540496X.2016.1258357
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    1. Hakan Yıldırım, 2022. "VIX or ınvestors scare?," Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, Springer, vol. 56(2), pages 769-777, April.
    2. Saffet Akdag & Ömer İskenderoglu & Andrew Adewale Alola, 2020. "The volatility spillover effects among risk appetite indexes: insight from the VIX and the rise," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer, vol. 13(1), pages 49-65, April.
    3. Batmunkh, Munkh-Ulzii & Choijil, Enkhbayar & Vieito, João Paulo & Espinosa-Méndez, Christian & Wong, Wing-Keung, 2020. "Does herding behavior exist in the Mongolian stock market?," Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, Elsevier, vol. 62(C).
    4. Chen, Bin-xia & Sun, Yan-lin, 2022. "The impact of VIX on China’s financial market: A new perspective based on high-dimensional and time-varying methods," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 63(C).
    5. Nguyen, Huu Manh & Bakry, Walid & Vuong, Thi Huong Giang, 2023. "COVID-19 pandemic and herd behavior: Evidence from a frontier market," Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Finance, Elsevier, vol. 38(C).
    6. Saffet Akdağ & İlker Kiliç & Hakan Yildirim, 2019. "Does VIX scare stocks of tourism companies?," Letters in Spatial and Resource Sciences, Springer, vol. 12(3), pages 215-232, December.
    7. Zaremba, Adam & Szyszka, Adam & Karathanasopoulos, Andreas & Mikutowski, Mateusz, 2021. "Herding for profits: Market breadth and the cross-section of global equity returns," Economic Modelling, Elsevier, vol. 97(C), pages 348-364.
    8. Jung Park, Yuen & Kutan, Ali M. & Ryu, Doojin, 2019. "The impacts of overseas market shocks on the CDS-option basis," The North American Journal of Economics and Finance, Elsevier, vol. 47(C), pages 622-636.
    9. Muhammad Abubakr Naeem & Mudassar Hasan & Abraham Agyemang & Md Iftekhar Hasan Chowdhury & Faruk Balli, 2023. "Time‐frequency dynamics between fear connectedness of stocks and alternative assets," International Journal of Finance & Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 28(2), pages 2188-2201, April.
    10. Fouz Khalid, 2020. "Factor Affecting Investment Behavior: Mediating Role of Self-Efficacy," Journal of Finance and Economics Research, Geist Science, Iqra University, Faculty of Business Administration, vol. 5(2), pages 112-125, October.
    11. İskenderoglu Ömer & Akdag Saffet, 2020. "Comparison of the Effect of Vix Fear Index on Stock Exchange Indices of Developed and Developing Countries: the G20 Case," South East European Journal of Economics and Business, Sciendo, vol. 15(1), pages 105-121, June.

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