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Herd Behavior in Financial Markets

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Sushil Bikhchandani (International Monetary Fund)
Sunil Sharma (International Monetary Fund)

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This paper provides an overview of the recent theoretical and empirical research on herd behavior in financial markets. It looks at what precisely is meant by herding, the causes of herd behavior, the success of existing studies in identifying the phenomenon, and the effect that herding has on financial markets. Copyright 2001, International Monetary Fund

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Volume (Year): 47 (2001)
Issue (Month): 3 ()
Pages: 1
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  2. Ilan Goldfajn & Marcos Antonio Silveira, 2002. "Should government smooth exchange rate risk?," Textos para discussão 465, Department of Economics PUC-Rio (Brazil). [Downloadable!]
  3. Barbara Alemanni & José Renato Haas Ornelas, 2006. "Herding Behavior by Equity Foreign Investors on Emerging Markets," Working Papers Series 125, Central Bank of Brazil, Research Department. [Downloadable!]
  4. Ansgar Belke & Ralph Setzer, 2004. "Contagion, herding and exchange-rate instability — A survey," Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, Springer, vol. 39(4), pages 222-228, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  5. Robson Rodrigues Pereira, 2004. "Comunicação Em Política Monetária," Anais do XXXII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 32th Brazilian Economics Meeting] 029, ANPEC - Associação Nacional dos Centros de Pósgraduação em Economia [Brazilian Association of Graduate Programs in Economics]. [Downloadable!]
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