Does herding affect volatility? Implications for the Spanish stock market

Quantitative Finance

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 311-327

  Blasco, Natividad ^a   Corredor, Pilar ^b   Ferreruela, Sandra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b PUBLIC UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Behavioral finance; Capital markets; Herding; Volatility

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857174002     PISSN: 14697688     EISSN: 14697696     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14697688.2010.516766     Document Type: Article

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