Estimating a Structural Model of Herd Behavior in Financial Markets /

We develop a new methodology to estimate the importance of herd behavior in financial markets: we build a structural model of informational herding that can be estimated with financial transaction data. In the model, rational herding arises because of information-event uncertainty. We estimate the m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Guarino, Antonio
Other Authors: Cipriani, Marco
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2010.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2010/288
Online Access:Full text available on IMF