Keyword(s): herding
10/18/12
Ippei Fujiwara, Hibiki Ichiue, Yoshiyuki Nakazono, Yosuke Shigemi, Globalization and Monetary Policy Institute Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 2012
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"We test whether professional forecasters forecast rationally or behaviora… more »
05/05/12
06:39:36 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com 
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Categories: Economics United States, Economics Global
Levine, Ross, An Autopsy of the U.S. Financial System (April 2010). NBER Working Paper No. w15956. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1598072
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In this postmortem, I find that the design, implementation, and maintenance of financia… more »
02/15/12
AbstractThe Policy Research Working Paper Series disseminates the findings of work in progress to encourage the exchange of ideas about developmentissues. An objective of the series is to get the findings out quickly, even if the presentations are le… more »
10/29/11
MSN Money: Just how smart is Wall Street? Oct. 28, 2011
In the cold world of the Street, the 'smart' crowd preys upon the 'dumb' money. But professionals are prone to greed, overconfidence and a blind faith that it's different this time. read more… more »
10/01/11
Buttonwood Notebook has a post about why stock market recommendations by journalists should not be taken too serious:Buttonwood Notebook blog (Economist): Markets? Dontcha hate 'em? Sept. 28, 2011Buttonwood writes:"The point is not just that… more »
09/21/11
07:17:30 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 208 words
Categories: Market research, Market characteristics
Hill, Claire A., Why Didn’t Subprime Investors Demand (Much More of) a Lemons Premium? (March 1, 2011). Law and Contemporary Problems, Vol. 74, p. 47, 2011; Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 11-31Abstract: "The subprime crisis would… more »
09/04/11
NYT: The Beauty Contest That’s Shaking Wall St., by Robert J. Shiller, Sept. 3, 2011
THE extraordinary surge of stock market volatility during the last month can’t be explained by conventional means. Yes, hundreds of scholarly papers have tried to p… more »
05/25/11
May 23, 2011Keywords: Technology Industry, Facebook, Twitter, Technology Bubble more »
02/05/11
01:19:28 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 105 words
Categories: Banks/Investment Banks, Regulation
Siklos, Pierre L., Bohl, Martin T. and Klein, Arne, Following the Short Seller: Do Short Selling Bans Prevent Herding During Financial Crises? (January 20, 2011). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1744365Abstract:"In the literature on s… more »
01/09/11
MarketObservation: Researchers find evidence that analyst reports are not very informative overall, Dec. 25, 2009MarketObservation: Analysts as opinion producing agents, Jan. 13, 2008MarketObservation: Who leads whom in the analyst's scene, Dec… more »
11/29/10
John Authors book on Amazon.com.The author about his book:Keywords: The Fearful Rise of Markets, John Authors, Bubbles, Herding, Synchronized Meltdowns more »
07/12/10
09:07:11 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com, 83 words
Categories: Economics United States, Economics Europe
Find here some good reading about information herding.ð£e rise of social media and its impact on mainstream journalism: A study of how newspapers and broadcasters in the UK and US are responding to a wave of participatory social media,and a historic… more »
05/17/10
By blogging, together with thousands of peers, we sometimes ask ourselves how we, as a group of peers, contribute to herd behavior in financial markets. We have no answer. Find here a set of research papers on the subject:
Citations for "Multidimensio… more »
12/25/09
11:25:59 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 521 words
Categories: Market research, Market characteristics
Subprime at the beginning:MarketObservation: Volatile situation in the US real estate market, March 16, 2007MarketObservation: Subprime loans - star economist's view, July 3, 2007MarketObservation: Subprime loans - star economist's view, July… more »
02/21/09
07:56:10 pm, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 502 words
Categories: Stock Market, Behavioral Finance
On April 6, 2007, we posted a Weltwoche article from August 29, 2002, titled "Ein Volk von Verlierern" (a people of loosers). The post was titled "remember". The Weltwoche article dealt with the new economy bubble, the herding behavior of investors and t… more »
12/26/08
Source: Dilbert by Scott Adams more »
10/09/08
07:15:11 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 207 words
Categories: Market research, News, United States
National Association of Realtors: Pending Home Sales up Strongly, October 8, 2008
Pending home sales activity surged as buyers took advantage of low home prices and affordable interest rates, according to the National Association of Realtors®.
The… more »
02/29/08
08:07:49 am, by editor of MarketObservation.com , 111 words
Categories: Market research, Market characteristics
Sueddeutsche, Die zornigen Propheten, Feb. 20, 2008: "Es tut gut, wenn komplexe Sachverhalte wie die Kreditkrise in einer Frage komprimiert werden. "Warum haben US-Banken Hauskredite an arme Bürger vergeben?", fragt Joseph Stiglitz. Der Wirtschaftsnobelp… more »
02/15/08
Herd Investors Fear Missing the Bubble, Marguerite Rigoglioso, Stanford Business Magazine, Feb. 2008: "Why do people herd around risky investments, causing “bubbles” that inevitably burst and leave most investors losers? Couldn’t the players in the dot-c… more »
01/22/08
This is a link to a section of the World Bank Group which presents some papers that explain explain contagion due to financial links or due to herding behavior in international financial markets.
Financial Contagion and Herding: The Theory, World Ba… more »
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