Abstract
•We investigate the effect of herding on market idiosyncratic conditional volatility.•The sample covers all listed companies in the American market over four major turmoil periods.•We modify the CSAD model to include trading volume and investors’ sentiment.•Herding is present in almost every sector of the U.S. stock market during turmoil periods.
This paper investigates the effect of herding behavior on excessive market idiosyncratic volatility in the U.S. stock market at a sectoral level. We carefully modify the cross sectional absolute deviation model to include trading volume and investors’ sentiment as herding triggers, and show that herding is indeed present in almost every sector of the U.S. stock market during turmoil periods. Furthermore, our particularly designed GJR-GARCH model provides new insights on the effect of herding and volume turnover on the conditional volatility. The sample covers all listed companies in the American stock market over four major turmoil periods.