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Investors’ fear and herding in the stock market

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  • Fotini Economou
  • Christis Hassapis
  • Nikolaos Philippas

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In this article, we examine herding in three developed stock markets testing for the impact of investors’ ‘fear’ on herding estimations. To this end, we employ daily data of all listed stocks from USA, UK and Germany from January 2004 to July 2014. We examine herd behaviour applying the cross-sectional dispersion approach. Moreover, we investigate the asymmetric herding behaviour under different market states and sub-periods. The stock markets under examination provide comparable implied volatility indices which are used as a proxy for fear. As a result, apart from the standard herding estimations within and across markets, we also augment the benchmark model with the fear indicator. Our empirical results document the statistically significant impact of fear on herding estimations. Moreover, there is evidence of cross market herding as well as evidence of herding in the UK during specific sub-periods.

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  • Fotini Economou & Christis Hassapis & Nikolaos Philippas, 2018. "Investors’ fear and herding in the stock market," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 50(34-35), pages 3654-3663, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:applec:v:50:y:2018:i:34-35:p:3654-3663
    DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2018.1436145
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