Herding behaviour in Turkish stock market sector indices: the effect of COVID-19 outbreak Online publication date: Tue, 24-Jan-2023
by Kıymet Yavuzaslan; Nasif Ozkan
International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance (IJMEF), Vol. 15, No. 5, 2022
Abstract: Within the framework of isolation and social distance rules, the most important method of avoiding the COVID-19 virus, has taken place in the social life and the economic activities of people. The COVID-19 outbreak has driven uncertainty in all financial markets, and also recent studies have determined a direct relationship between the irrational decisions of investors and the pandemic. After the COVID-19 outbreak, principally, the herding behaviour has been observed in almost all the emerging stock markets. We analysed the sixteen Borsa Istanbul sector indices using the methodology of Chang et al. (2000). During the COVID-19 outbreak, we validated the existence of herding behaviour in the food, beverage, and banking sectors. Besides, we found evidence of herding behaviour in most of the sectors in upmarket conditions, while we confirmed only in the Food, Beverage sector in both the up and down market conditions.
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