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Showing 1 to 20 of 97 for “"Herding"”.
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Two Essays on Mutual Fund Herding
… of two chapters. First chapter examines whether herding by actively managed equity funds affects their performance. For this purpose, first the effect of herding on stock returns is reexamined and evidence is found that, during the herding quarter, stocks bought intensely by herds outperform …
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Two Essays on Herding in Financial Markets
… of two essays. In the first essay, we measure herding by institutional investors in the new economy (internet) stocks during 1998-2001 by examining the changes in the quarterly institutional holdings of internet stocks relative to an average stock. More than 95% of the stocks that are examined …
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Herding by South African Equity Unit Trusts: An analysis of the causes and extent of herding behaviour on the JSE Limited
… (i.e., herd), and specifically whether such herding is motivated by intent. This dissertation ascertained intent by observing the interaction of correlated trading behaviour and states of the general equity market, controlled for conditions that drive spurious correlation; namely, net fund …
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Conquest and change : Mongol herding in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia
I examine changing herding practices in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, contrasting the perspectives of herders with those of local officials and scientists. I also carried out comparative fieldwork in a similar steppe environment in Mongolia. I present a model for research which involves exploring …
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Analyst Herding, Shareholder Investment Horizon, and Management Earnings Guidance
… proposed reason for this effect is analysts are herding due to reputational concerns. Further testing, however, does not show that the relation between transient ownership and analyst herding is owed to poor monitoring behavior of transient-owned firms. In contrast, evidence is consistent with …
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Investors' Fear and Herding in the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE)
… from their fundamentals. This paper examines herding in the South African equity market by examining the impact of investor fear on herding behavior, using a survivorship-bias free daily dataset of companies within the JSE All Share Index over the period: 3 May 2002 to 31 December 2019. Using …
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Learning Strategies in Multi-Agent Systems - Applications to the Herding Problem
… In this thesis two solutions to a multi-agent herding problem are presented. One solution is based on Q-learning algorithm, while the other is based on modeling of artificial immune system. Q-learning solution for the herding problem is developed, using region-based local learning for each …
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When are investors' uncertainty judgments influenced by their perceptions about analyst herding?
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Herding behaviour by South African unit trusts in the consumer services sector
This study examines whether there is herding by general equity unit trusts as investors in the consumer services sector in South Africa. It also investigates whether herding was more prevalent during the financial crisis period in South Africa between 2008 and 2010, than during a non-crisis period. …
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Does Investment Horizon Matter? Disentangling the Effect of Institutional Herding on Stock Prices
Existing studies document that institutional herding has a stabilizing effect on stock prices, as stock returns are positively correlated with herding over one- to three-quarter horizons. The literature also shows that short-term institutions are better informed than long-term institutions. …
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Optimal Control for a Two Player Dynamic Pursuit Evasion Game; The Herding Problem
… a new class of pursuit-evasion games; the herding problem. Unlike regular pursuit evasion games where the pursuer aims to hunt the evader the objective of the pursuer in this game is to drive the evader to a certain location on the x-y grid. The dissertation deals with this problem using …
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Komi reindeer herding: mobility and land use in a changing natural and social environment
… and space, were fundamentally dependent upon herding skill and knowledge, and herd control: (a) the duty herder’s ability to maintain herd cohesion and (b) the general aim of preventing harm befalling the herd (by avoiding dangerous terrain). The duty herder’s selection of pastures was, …
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Herding behaviour in African stock markets: evidence from South Africa, Nigeria, Egypt & Kenya
In the presence of herding, collective investor behaviour tends to gravitate toward the same or similar investments. When herding behaviour becomes widespread, it can create asset bubbles or market crashes through panic-driven buying and selling. Consequently, comprehending how markets might react …
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THE CHANGING ROLE OF SÁMI WOMEN IN REINDEER HERDING COMMUNITIES IN NORTHERN NORWAY AND THE 1970-1980s WOMEN’S RESISTANCE AND REDEFINITION MOVEMENT
… and economic inequalities. The 1978 Reindeer Herding Act was dubbed a gender neutral policy; however, because of ambiguities and omissions in the construction of the act, it only continued to perpetuate Sámi women’s invisibility as participants in an occupation that was traditionally central …
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THE CHANGING ROLE OF SÁMI WOMEN IN REINDEER HERDING COMMUNITIES IN NORTHERN NORWAY AND THE 1970-1980s WOMEN’S RESISTANCE AND REDEFINITION MOVEMENT
… and economic inequalities. The 1978 Reindeer Herding Act was dubbed a gender neutral policy; however, because of ambiguities and omissions in the construction of the act, it only continued to perpetuate Sámi women’s invisibility as participants in an occupation that was traditionally central …
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Eco-Friendly Chemical Herders For Remediation Of Maritime Oil Spill
… of time.</p> <p>This thesis studies chemical herding as an alternative methodology for the remediation of oil spills on the sea surface. In chemical herding, surfactants are used as chemical herders to draw the slick upon itself to a reduced area and a large thickness so that it can be burned …
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Foreign direct investment – a behavioural finance approach
… two behavioural finance concepts, home bias and herding, to the analysis of FDI flows. I contribute to the literature by empirically testing for home bias and herding in an FDI context using a very broad panel dataset. I also contribute by examining the country policy implications of home bias on …
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Hunting and herding in a semi-arid region : an archaeozoological and ethological analysis of the faunal remains from the Epipalaeolithic and Neolithic of the eastern Jordanian steppe.
This thesis focuses on the faunal remains from a sequence of 11 Epipalaeolithic and ten Neolithic sites in the eastern Jordanian steppe, with the aim of investigating the subsistence practices of hunters and herders between 20,000bp and 7,500bp, and their temporal and geographic variability within …
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