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Herd Behavior of Japanese Economists

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Vaccination, Herd Behavior, and Herd Immunity

Medical Decision Making, 2013
Background: During the 2009 outbreak of novel influenza AH1N1, insufficient data were available to adequately inform decision makers about benefits and risks of vaccination and disease. We hypothesized that individuals would opt to mimic their peers, having no better decision anchor.
Matan J, Cohen   +4 more
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Herd Behavior and Investment: Comment

American Economic Review, 2000
In an influential paper, David S. Scharfstein and Jeremy C. Stein (1990) modeled sequential investment by agents concerned about their reputation as good forecasters. Consider an agent who acts after observing the behavior of another ex ante identical agent.
OTTAVIANI, MARCO M., P. Sorensen
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Simulated evolution of selfish herd behavior

Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2005
Single species aggregations are a commonly observed phenomenon. One potential explanation for these aggregations is provided by the selfish herd hypothesis, which states that aggregations result from individual efforts to reduce personnel predation risk at the expense of group-mates.
Reluga, Timothy C., Viscido, Steven
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Herd Behavior in Financial Markets [PDF]

open access: possibleIMF Staff Papers, 2000
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.
Sushil Bikhchandani, Sunil Sharma
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Unmasking Herd behavior in ASEAN Countries

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
This paper includes the detection of Herd Behavior and bubbles in ASEAN countries and some other countries as well through different methods.
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Herd Behavior in Artificial Stock Markets

2004
Herd behavior in Economics can be fruitfully represented by a generalization of the well-known Ehrenfest urn model to correlated clustering. The strategies of an agent in a stock market (planning to buy, to sell or to be inactive) are represented by three urns, and the accommodation of each agent in one of them is ruled by a random mechanism that may ...
U. Garibaldi   +2 more
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Analyst Forecasts and Herding Behavior:

Review of Financial Studies, 1994
The use of analyst forecasts as proxies for investors' earnings expectations is commonplace in empirical research. An implicit assumption behind their use is that they reflect analysts' private information in an unbiased manner. As demonstrated here, this assumption is not necessarily valid.
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