Date: 2017
Type: Article
Herding behavior, market sentiment and volatility : will the bubble resume?
The North American journal of economics and finance, 2017, Vol. 42, pp. 107-131
BEKIROS, Stelios D., JLASSI, Mouna, LUCEY, Brian, NAOUI, Kamel, UDDIN, Gazi Salah, Herding behavior, market sentiment and volatility : will the bubble resume?, The North American journal of economics and finance, 2017, Vol. 42, pp. 107-131
- https://hdl.handle.net/1814/49824
Retrieved from Cadmus, EUI Research Repository
This paper aims to investigate herding behavior and its impact on volatility under uncertainty. We apply a cross-sectional absolute deviation approach as well as Quantile Regression methods to capture the herding behavior in daily and monthly frequencies in US markets over several time-periods including the global financial crisis. In a novel attempt we modify the empirical CSAD herding modeling by introducing implied volatility as a measure of agent risk expectations. Our findings indicate that herding tends to be intense under extreme market conditions, as depicted in the upper high quantile range of the conditional distribution of returns. During crisis periods herding is observed at the beginning of the crisis and becomes insignificant towards the end. The US market herding behavior exhibits time-varying dynamic trading patterns that can be attributed e.g., to overconfidence or excessive “flight to quality” features, mostly observed in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. Moreover, implied volatility reveals asymmetric patterns and plays a key role in enforcing irrational behavior.
Additional information:
Published online: 22 July 2017
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/49824
Full-text via DOI: 10.1016/j.najef.2017.07.005
ISSN: 1062-9408
Publisher: Elsevier
Keyword(s): Herding Quantile regression Implied volatility G1 G14 G15
Files associated with this item
Files | Size | Format | View |
---|---|---|---|
There are no files associated with this item. |