Empirical study of herding behavior impacts on South Asia Nation

This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between Sri Lanka and Pakistan’s stock markets and its interdependent with India and China given the later hefty involvement in the former economic activity. The study investigate the potential macro herding across the four countries and also try to e...

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Main Authors: Alom, Shahedin, Mohd Nasarudin, Ahmad Fawwaz
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
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Published: 2019
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description This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between Sri Lanka and Pakistan’s stock markets and its interdependent with India and China given the later hefty involvement in the former economic activity. The study investigate the potential macro herding across the four countries and also try to examine the spillover effect especially from superior market towards its developing counterpart. The Cross Sectional Absolute Deviation (CSAD) is utilized to test for herding and it suggested that while herding exist in China, Sri Lanka and Pakistan pre-crisis period, only Pakistan have herding after the subprime crisis. Testing industrial herding across the countries revealed that investors do not emphasize sectoral influence over herding decision. However, as we consider the spillover effects between countries and test for herding in selected industry with higher percentage of trade among them, it reveals herding existence in several diferent industry pre and post crisis. The findings confirms the existence of herding in individuals market except for India and also across market in selected industry due to spillover effects.
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spelling iium-791822020-12-16T09:36:46Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/79182/ Empirical study of herding behavior impacts on South Asia Nation Alom, Shahedin Mohd Nasarudin, Ahmad Fawwaz HG4501 Stocks, investment, speculation This paper investigates the dynamic relationship between Sri Lanka and Pakistan’s stock markets and its interdependent with India and China given the later hefty involvement in the former economic activity. The study investigate the potential macro herding across the four countries and also try to examine the spillover effect especially from superior market towards its developing counterpart. The Cross Sectional Absolute Deviation (CSAD) is utilized to test for herding and it suggested that while herding exist in China, Sri Lanka and Pakistan pre-crisis period, only Pakistan have herding after the subprime crisis. Testing industrial herding across the countries revealed that investors do not emphasize sectoral influence over herding decision. However, as we consider the spillover effects between countries and test for herding in selected industry with higher percentage of trade among them, it reveals herding existence in several diferent industry pre and post crisis. The findings confirms the existence of herding in individuals market except for India and also across market in selected industry due to spillover effects. 2019-07-11 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/79182/1/New%20Doc%202020-02-26%2011.55.30.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/79182/13/PAPER%20FOR%20ICFM.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/79182/19/fawwaz.pdf Alom, Shahedin and Mohd Nasarudin, Ahmad Fawwaz (2019) Empirical study of herding behavior impacts on South Asia Nation. In: 1st International Conference on Financial Markets (ICFM 2019), 11th-12th July 2019, Kuala Lumpur. (Unpublished)
spellingShingle HG4501 Stocks, investment, speculation
Alom, Shahedin
Mohd Nasarudin, Ahmad Fawwaz
Empirical study of herding behavior impacts on South Asia Nation
title Empirical study of herding behavior impacts on South Asia Nation
title_full Empirical study of herding behavior impacts on South Asia Nation
title_fullStr Empirical study of herding behavior impacts on South Asia Nation
title_full_unstemmed Empirical study of herding behavior impacts on South Asia Nation
title_short Empirical study of herding behavior impacts on South Asia Nation
title_sort empirical study of herding behavior impacts on south asia nation
topic HG4501 Stocks, investment, speculation
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/79182/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/79182/1/New%20Doc%202020-02-26%2011.55.30.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/79182/13/PAPER%20FOR%20ICFM.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/79182/19/fawwaz.pdf