Herding or wisdom of the crowd? Controlling efficiency in a partially rational financial market

Herding has often been blamed as one of the possible causes of market instabilities, ultimately yielding to bubbles and crushes. On the other hand, researchers hypothesized that financial systems may benefit from the so-called wisdom of the crowd. To solve this apparent dichotomy, we leverage a nove...

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Main Authors: Fabio Della Rossa, Lorenzo Giannini, Pietro DeLellis, Hocine Cherifi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7485832/?tool=EBI