It is common in the Chinese securities market for the individual investors to herd on the institutional investors. This article builds a model of leader-follower for this special phenomenon. Through certain assumptions and calculations, the model finds that the herding behavior increases the volatility of the market price, and that the leaders gain more profit than the followers in most circumstances. But as the amount of the leader increases and the noise in the signal that the leaders receive increases, ...
Jun SONG
, Ye ZHAO
, Chong Feng WU. , {{custom_author.name_en}}.
A Model of Leader-Follower in the Securities Market. Systems Engineering - Theory & Practice, 2003, 23(1): 1-8 https://doi.org/10.12011/1000-6788(2003)1-1