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Does religiosity affect stock investors’ herding behaviour? Global evidence

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  • El Hajjar, Samah
  • Gebka, Bartosz
  • Duxbury, Darren
  • Su, Chen

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We investigate if religiosity promotes herding among stock market investors. In a global sample of 21 markets over the period 2006–2018, increasing religiosity fosters herding only when the absolute religiosity level is relatively high. At low levels, an increase in religiosity has the opposite effect, promoting anti-herding. Our finding that changes in religiosity, depending on its level (high versus low), exert opposing effects on herding helps to understand contradictory findings in prior literature. Religiosity further induces more herding when economic freedom is low and the state is either impotent or corrupt, and promotes anti-herding when institutional quality is high.

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  • El Hajjar, Samah & Gebka, Bartosz & Duxbury, Darren & Su, Chen, 2024. "Does religiosity affect stock investors’ herding behaviour? Global evidence," Finance Research Letters, Elsevier, vol. 62(PA).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:finlet:v:62:y:2024:i:pa:s1544612324001958
    DOI: 10.1016/j.frl.2024.105165
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    Keywords

    Herding; Religion; Stock market; Culture;
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    JEL classification:

    • G10 - Financial Economics - - General Financial Markets - - - General (includes Measurement and Data)
    • G41 - Financial Economics - - Behavioral Finance - - - Role and Effects of Psychological, Emotional, Social, and Cognitive Factors on Decision Making in Financial Markets
    • Z12 - Other Special Topics - - Cultural Economics - - - Religion

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