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March 9, 2015

Herd Behavior in Financial Markets

Marco Cipriani and Antonio Guarino

Over the last twenty-five years, there has been a lot of interest in herd behavior in financial markets—that is, a trader’s decision to disregard his or her private information to follow the behavior of the crowd.

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Posted at 7:00 am in Financial Markets | Permalink | Comments (1)
April 9, 2014

Lunch Anyone? Volatility on the Tokyo Stock Exchange around the Lunch Break on May 23, 2013, and Stock Market Circuit Breakers

Stock market circuit breakers halt trading activity on a single stock or an entire exchange if a sudden large price move occurs.

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Posted at 7:00 am in Financial Markets, Liquidity, Stocks | Permalink
January 4, 2012

Forecasting with Internet Search Data

Most economic data are released with a lag, sometimes quite a substantial one. Since the advent of regularly scheduled releases of economic data in the 1930s, a key challenge for economists has been to identify indicators that provide timely information about the release before it comes out—effectively, that “now-cast” its content.

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Posted at 7:00 am in Exchange Rates, Forecasting, Housing, Regional Analysis, Unemployment | Permalink | Comments (4)
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