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Monetary policy and herd behavior: international evidence

Spyrou, S. and Makrychoriti, Panagiota and Krokida, S.-I. (2020) Monetary policy and herd behavior: international evidence. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 170 , pp. 386-417. ISSN 0167‐2681.

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Abstract

This paper is motivated by the recent discussion on the need of market supervisors, regulators, and policy makers, to take into account the behavioral elements of market participant attitudes and psychological and cognitive biases when taking policy decisions. We contribute to the discussion by studying, for the first time, the relationship between conventional and unconventional central bank monetary policy and herd behavior in equity markets, and argue that the transmission channel, through which monetary policy may affect herd behavior, is economic expectations and investor sentiment. We combine a range of research methodologies to measure monetary policy, herd behavior, and their possible relation, and our results indicate that conventional and unconventional Fed monetary policy explains a significant percentage of US equity market herd behavior variance, while ECB monetary policy explains a lower percentage of Eurozone herding variance. Impulse Response Functions indicate that Fed’s conventional expansionary policy and non-standard policy reduces the levels of herding in the US equity market, while conventional ECB expansionary policy induces higher levels of herding in Spain and Italy. We also detect spill-over effects from Fed monetary policy to EU market herd behavior.

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Item Type: Article
School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
Depositing User: Panagiota Makrychoriti
Date Deposited: 02 Mar 2020 10:15
Last Modified: 09 Aug 2025 07:30
URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30953

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